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Re: IPv6 Multi-homing (was IPv6 /64 links)


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:26:14 -0400

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Douglas Otis <dotis () mail-abuse org> wrote:
The Internet should use more than port 80 and port 443.  Is extending
entrenched TCP cruft really taking the Internet to a better and safer
place?

isn't the 'internet should use more than 80/443' really: "Some
compelling use case should be found for more than 2 ports" ? Or
perhaps more clearly: "What application is written that is getting
wide appeal and uses more than 80/443?"

(aside from edonkey which Arbor always shows as a huge user of bandwidth)

-chris
(btw, it would be nice to use more ports, if there are applications
and users of said applications that want to do that...)


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