Re: [tsvwg] [port-srv-reg] draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-02

[Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>]

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Eliot Lear wrote:
> I'm confused.  Outbound and inbound port numbers are complete separate
> name spaces, aren't they?

They should be, but in implementations they often aren't. E.g., you bind
to 80 to listen, and now you cannot use 80 as a source port for outbound.

Further, some (IMO, poor) implementations use one space to count which
dynamic ports are in use.

So they should be separate, but they might not be...

Joe

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