[NNTP] Port numbers

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> 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?

I think 2 sounds about right.  For sites that have split transit and
reader functionality onto separate boxes, I don't see any reason to push
them to switch to 433 on their transit systems.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>