nixCraft 🐧How SSH port became the default TCP/22
https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/port#the-story-of-getting-ssh-port-22 #linux #unix #history
https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/port#the-story-of-getting-ssh-port-22 #linux #unix #history
Ryan Finnie@nixCraft The IANA's justification policy for low-numbered ports is more strict now, but the actual allocation has always been and is still "just pick some numbers lol".
I wrote 2ping, a UDP network utility, and its IANA-assigned port is 15998/udp. The person processing applications that day back in 2010 decided to start at 16000 and work down, and my application was third on the pile.