On Aug 19, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Marta Edie asked: > But there is one question I have: who gives the numbers to these > ports? iTunes is 3689, Printer sharing 631 and 515, remote log-in 22 > etc-. Why these wild numbers without any , at least to me, reason?
There's a group called IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority) that does it. <http://www.iana.net/> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
