[NNTP] About netnews port 532 for readnews
Julien ÉLIE
julien at trigofacile.com
Mon Jan 16 12:58:14 PST 2017
Hi all,
Digging in RFCs about assigned ports, I've just found out that port 532
is registered for our protocol. Its name is... "netnews" :-)
Does anyone here know what it was used exactly for (compared to port 119)?
A bit of archaeology:
RFC 943 mentions:
119 UNTP USENET News Transfer Protocol
RFC 1060 (therefore after RFC 977) mentions:
nntp 119/tcp usenet readnews untp
netnews 532/tcp readnews
RFC 1700 mentions:
nntp 119/tcp Network News Transfer Protocol
nnsp 433/tcp NNSP
netnews 532/tcp readnews
# 563/tcp Unassigned
As far as RFCs are concerned, I think port 563 has only been officially
mentioned since RFC 4642 (and then RFC 5538 for URI schemes).
Let's now find out an usage for it :)
--
Julien ÉLIE
« Ce n'est pas en tournant le dos aux choses qu'on leur fait face. »
(Pierre Dac)
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