Re: Why adulterate ports vs using an additional IP address? Was: Ports IP specific? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Why adulterate ports vs using an additional IP address? Was: Ports IP specific?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 10:15:40 -0700
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On 5/28/19, 9:53 AM, David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

In order to bind to a port from 1-1024 you need to have special
authority. In the unix world, that's restricted to root. I'm not sure
what authorities are needed on IBM i.

We have a fair amount of experience setting up Tomcat servers, mainly on IBM Midrange boxes. And the first time we ever encountered obstacles to binding Tomcat to 80 or 443 (other than collisions with other servers) was when we tried to set one up on a Linux box.

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JHHL

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