Jonathan Larmour writes:
| At 15:51 20/08/96 -0700, Duane Wessels wrote:
| >johns@rd.scitec.com.au writes:
| [snip]
| >>1) I notice Squid uses port numbers of 3128 for HTTP and 3130 for ICP
| >> (I also noticed 3132 for FTP in a config.h file). What happened to
| >> the regular 8080 port? Have the squid ports been registered and are
| >> now official, or didn't somebody like 8080?
| >
| Shouldn't they be registered with IANA? I would have hoped they would be
| defined in the ICP standards. Its useful to know what port a proxy is
| running on, because of e.g. neighbors needing to know not just the host
| name, but the ports as well. If it were standardised, (although nothing more
| than a default) life would be nicer.
Nobody has 3130 and 3128 at the moment, but I'm not sure this matters a
whole lot, since there are a couple of cases where multiple protocols
have been registered with the same well-known port number.
Martin
Received on Fri Aug 23 1996 - 18:08:58 MDT
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