If we just default to 0 then the OS will pick is a port in whatever range is 
ephemeral and free. We don’t have to do any work. No need to define a range and 
seek an open port.

> On Oct 5, 2018, at 10:40 AM, Dan Smith <dsm...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:31 AM Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>> 
>> Why not change the default behavior to that of port 0, letting the OS
>> select an open ephemeral port if the user doesn’t specify a specific port?
>> 
> 
> I think what we'd really like to do is change the cache server port to
> something other than 40404. Maybe 0 (pick a port), or maybe something less
> than 32K.
> 
> Unfortunately, on most linux distributions the ephemeral port range is 32K
> -> 61K, which includes 40404, which I think is why Brian is proposing a
> subset of that range.
> 
> -Dan

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