"Hague, Alex" wrote:
>
> I thought that the whole idea behind ports was to be able to know what
> traffic was passing through your network and to be able to stop it / control
> it. eg if you don't want POP you block port 110, if you don't want telnet
> you block port 23...
All kidding aside, the whole idea behind ports is to facilitate
communications by having end points to talk to. The purpose of the
ones assigned to particular applications is used to give clients
a well known starting point when they want to find services.
These days, port 80 is becoming to look more and more like RPC
portmap.
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Gary Flynn
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James Madison University
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