No, I think one arcane animal has a hardcoded portnumber.

To make your filterlife even more complicated, we are working on a
portmapper!


Peter






thoth_at_purplefrog.com writes:
 > 
 >   I just decided to add the coda ports to my packet filter.  What a pain in
 > the ass.
 > 
 >   Rather than having one filter entry of ipfwadm -I -W eth0 -p reject -P udp
 > -D 0.0.0.0/0 1355:1362, I have to have 8 separate entries or in the unknown
 > future, 4 of my client application UDP connections will fail miserably and
 > then everything will return to normal.  I haven't done the TCP filters, but
 > they're going to be a pain also.
 > 
 >   For the future, please register a SOLID BLOCK of VERY HIGH port numbers with
 > the IANA.  Preferrably in the area of 30000 to 32000.  A machine would have to
 > be up for a very long time before it started dispensing in that range.
 > 
 >   I wonder if I just change the entries in /etc/services will that remap the
 > ports for ALL APPLICATIONS in the coda suite.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
 >            http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/