> It is also odd and possibly grossly incompetent of Microsoft to > choose to use ports 1024+ for such purposes, but I'm thinking that > they have some weakly justifiable reason to do this as a "feature".
RPC endpoints always choose dynamic ports in the customary ephemeral range, not the reserved range. This is by definition and common sense. RPC is not a Microsoft invention. It was pioneered by Xerox & Sun and was implemented using the same basic model across many OSs. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
