check for unused ports and then grab one
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Sep 13 21:36:45 EDT 2004
In article <9vhh12-suo.ln1 at lairds.us>, claird at lairds.us (Cameron Laird)
wrote:
> In article <mailman.3268.1095108346.5135.python-list at python.org>,
> Erik Heneryd <erik at heneryd.com> wrote:
> >Brad Tilley wrote:
> >> Instead of me arbitrarily assigning a high port number to a variable, is
> >> it possible to check for ports that are unused and then randomly assign
> >> one of them to a variable?
> >
> >No. Trial and error until you find one.
> .
> .
> .
> Incorrect, if I understand you both; *UNIX Network Programming*
> has said for years that
> The process can let the system automatically assign
> a port. For both the Internet domain and the XNS
> domain, specifying a port number of 0 before calling
> bind() requests the system to do this.
> While I've never tracked down an RFC that specifies this, it surely
> exists.
There's no reason for it to be in an RFC, because it's an API issue, not
a protocol issue.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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