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Are there security implications to using dynamically-assigned TCP port numbers?

I’m getting pushback from operations for having a server process listen on a dynamically-assigned port number (i.e. it binds a socket to a port number of 0, triggering a dynamic assignment by the OS, which it retrieves using getsocketname()). The argument was that is “creates all kinds of issues for firewalling, routing, ACL, and security purposes”. I haven’t run across anything about this.

Are there security implications to using dynamically-assigned TCP port numbers?

I’m getting pushback from operations for having a server process listen on a dynamically-assigned port number (i.e. it binds a socket to a port number of 0, triggering a dynamic assignment by the OS, which it retrieves using getsocketname()). The argument was that is “creates all kinds of issues for firewalling, routing, ACL, and security purposes”. I haven’t run across anything about this.

Are there security implications to using dynamically-assigned TCP port numbers?

I’m getting pushback from operations for having a server process listen on a dynamically-assigned port number (i.e. it binds a socket to a port number of 0, triggering a dynamic assignment by the OS, which it retrieves using getsocketname()). The argument was that is “creates all kinds of issues for firewalling, routing, ACL, and security purposes”. I haven’t run across anything about this.

Android Design – Service vs Thread for Networking

I am writing an Android app, finally (yay me) and for this app I need persistant, but user closeable, network sockets (yes, more than one). I decided to try my hand at writing my own version of an IRC Client.