Re:Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)
by Decade on Saturday July 22, 2017 @01:31PM
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Details. In practice, few applications do interesting things when binding to multiple IP addresses. Itβs like a special case of single IP address.
Perhaps I should phrase it, there is no fundamental reason why IP addresses are associated with hosts rather than users, or even services. There is no fundamental reason why you need to be root to listen to privileged ports, which includes many of the most useful ports.
Perhaps I should phrase it, there is no fundamental reason why IP addresses are associated with hosts rather than users, or even services. There is no fundamental reason why you need to be root to listen to privileged ports, which includes many of the most useful ports.