[136561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Thu Feb 3 14:29:33 2011
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:25:18 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <16075456.4557.1296760302037.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2/3/2011 2:11 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Was TCP/IP this bad back in 1983, folks?
Yeah. Only real hosts on the network, and you had to be a real "root" user to bind a
listening port < 1024 :-)
Now a 5-year-old with a freakin' phone can do it.
Jeff
