Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers?

From	Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers?
Date	2017-10-02 12:30 +0200
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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 01 October 2017 03:34:19 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 01:28:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > > > Assuring that my port is not in this IANA list is not enough to
>> > > > ensure that my port number will not clash with a port number
>> > > > used by a Debian package (by default).
>> > > >
>> > > > So your answer to my question is wrong.
>> >
>> > In which case debian should publish the unlisted ports they do use,
>> > if for no other reason than to "stake a claim".
>>
>> "Debian" "should". Gene, you "should" know better ;-)
>>
>> Want to start with it? Write a script which scans the /etc files in
>> all Debian packages for network configurations.
>>
> That might be possible IF you wanted to use a tool like grep, but in 30 
> years I've not found a way to silence the "binary file matches" messages 
> from grep. [...]

`grep -a` will force grep to treat a file (regardless of data) as ascii
text.  Beware that a truely binary file will spit out the whole thing.


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Free TCP/IP port numbers? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2017-10-01 03:20 +0200
  Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 03:30 +0200
    Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2017-10-01 04:00 +0200
      Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 04:30 +0200
        Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-01 07:30 +0200
          Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 09:40 +0200
            Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-10-01 09:50 +0200
            Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-01 13:50 +0200
              Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 14:20 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 15:00 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-01 15:50 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 16:20 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 16:50 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-10-02 23:10 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-02 23:10 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-10-02 23:30 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-01 16:50 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 17:00 +0200
                Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-01 17:40 +0200
                Grep's "ignore binry files" option [was: Free TCP/IP port numbers?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 18:00 +0200
                Re: Grep's "ignore binry files" option [was: Free TCP/IP port numbers?] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-01 18:40 +0200
              Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 14:50 +0200
              Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-10-02 12:30 +0200
      Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 04:40 +0200
        Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-10-02 12:30 +0200
          Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-10-02 12:50 +0200
  Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 10:00 +0200
  Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-01 15:00 +0200
  Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2017-10-01 15:00 +0200
    Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-10-01 15:20 +0200
    Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-04 16:50 +0200
  Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-02 23:00 +0200
    Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-10-02 23:30 +0200

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