sshd also talking HTTP

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Fri Jul 11 08:59:32 EST 2003



On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

>
> >There is a reason ports are registered for services. =)  Same reason you
> >name your public server sane names like "www.mydomain.com" and
> >"mail.mydomain.com".  Because it is what people expect.  Be it right or
> >wrong.  The whole "lets pig pile everything on port 80/443" has become
> >extreme lately.
> >
> >
> Yeah, welcome to the unplanned evolution of the net.  *sighs*
>
> You can't argue a server with 40 open ports is good, so what does that
> leave you?
>

Nor could I argue that 1 port with 40 services on it is good either.

- Ben




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