Hi, I was reading up on basic networking with Sockets on java and had this question: if a server was started on a machine A with the constructor - new ServerSocket(0), and I needed a client on Machine B to connect to this server but the client does not know in advance which port will the service be available on. How can one avoid this? How can an application decide in advance which port its going use on a machine? I apologise if this is a Java related question and not a java-linux one. Is there a good reference and/or a list where I can go with questions like these? Thanks, -Karthik. -------------------------- Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. - Niels Bohr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]