Victor Porton wrote: > We are going to install a range of software on a Debian Linux > installation. Because we run the same software (such as Celery) several > times, we need to use port numbers different than the standard Debian port > numbers chosen by default (because we can't run more than one instance of > a server with the same port, and thus using the standard port number for > all servers would fail). > > How to choose TCP/IP port numbers for server software we run in such a way > that they don't clash with "standard" Debian port numbers? > > In Debian are there any ranges of port numbers dedicated (so that they > wouldn't clash with "standard" that is used by default port numbers) for > servers configured by users? > > Note that we run (at least some of) our software not as root, so we can't > use ports below 1024.
I received no satisfactory answer. So I feel that there is no Debian policy on using port numbers. This policy should be added to Debian! It may be something like: "Debian packages (with default configuration) are allowed to bind ports 1-10000. Ports 10001-32000 are available for users." Please discuss. -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org