On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:00:04AM -0700, Dexter Kimball wrote: > Take a look at ports in use -- we've seen this on a Solaris box running some > sort of RAID management utility and IBM/Transarc AFS -- it was using > 2040/tcp -- turns out the volserver talks to the fileserver on this port ... > FSYNC_clientInit comes from fileserver/volserver talking to each other about > volume headers IIRC. > > (If I have the port number wrong, anyone, please correct.)
I've come across 2040/tcp just yesterday. Would it be feasible to use a unix domain socket on the systems that provide them? This would avoid any port collisions and could be nicely protected to be accessed only by root. Looking over fssync.c a patch looks not too difficult. Volker
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