27 Jun
1996
27 Jun
'96
9:57 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Bill Manning wrote:
The new 2.0 whois server runs now on port 4444. People might want to give it a try before we put it in production.
It might be better if you were to get an actual assigned port number for your production code. That would slow down the port hopping that you are doing now.
I might be missing something, but whois has been sitting on port 43 since the stone ages, i.e. there is a defined port. I think that it makes sense to use a different port for testing purposes. Asking for an 'officlal port' just for experimental code seems a bit off to me. Geert Jan