On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:29:24AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 20:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > BTW, are port numbers still limited to 16 bits in IPv6?
>
> Port numbers are in TCP, not in IP.
I'd checked that it should work with IPv6, but I hadn't realized that
it was b
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 20:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> BTW, are port numbers still limited to 16 bits in IPv6?
Port numbers are in TCP, not in IP.
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On 25 sep 2009, at 02.59, Tom Lane wrote:
Sam Mason writes:
+if (portnum < 1 || portnum > 65535)
BTW, it strikes me that we could tighten this even more by rejecting
target ports below 1024. This is guaranteed safe on all Unix systems
I know of, because privileged ports can only b
