[NNTP] Port numbers

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Nov 12 07:49:04 PST 2004


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> I've got two possible wordings for port numbers.
> 
> (1) The official TCP port for the NNTP service is 433 for transit-only
>     servers and 119 for all other servers.
> 
> (2) The official TCP port for the NNTP service is 119. However, if a host
>     wishes to offer separate transit-only and reader-only servers, port
>     433 SHOULD be used for the former and 119 for the latter.
> 
> [The terms "reader-only", "transit-only", and "general-use" are defined
> in text that will surround this.]
> 
> Which better describes our intent?

Either works for me; leaning towards (2).

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