[JDEV] JIT - ICQ Transport release
Matthias Wimmer
m at tthias.net
Tue Nov 26 09:57:31 CST 2002
Hi!
admin at jabber.fsinf.de wrote:
>Why are too many ports bad?
>
>
1. scalability (you can have at most 65535 listening sockets per IP)
2. security
a) Managing of firewall in front of the server
b) outgoing connections to the ICQ-server are less vulnerable then
to listen for incomming connections that can be established by any
internet host
c) harder to keep track on what is going on
Tot kijk
Matthias
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