Config Examples

[freeradius at corwyn.net]

At 02:54 PM 12/5/2009, Alex Bahoor wrote:

>Ivan,
>
>Imagine DNS uses dynamic port assignment instead of port 53? Guess 
>what, no one would be able to use the internet. :-)
>
>Alex

First, I believe you're trying to respond to me.

Second, you're asking questions about which you don't apparently understand.

What if I wanted to run my own implementation of DNS to do something 
bizarre? SSH on a different port than 22 (quite common)? A web server 
on port 88?  Telnet on port 8000. I can do all of those things. And 
apache, bind, tftp, ftp, telnet, sshd (and really almost every 
service that assigns a port) all have the ability to change the default port.

If I'm running my own services, I might want the ability to run them 
on non-standard ports. That's why there are defaults, AND the ability 
to change them.

Rick