Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] [patch] code for dissecting X11 requests

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:05:42 -0500
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 02:29:09AM +0200, Christophe Tronche wrote:
> 
> I have mixed feelings about this. IANA should be the authority,
> however from a pragmatic point of view, I've never seen, say, port
> 6010 used for a display, but I've definitely seen it used on an old HP
> audio server. It may seem to be an old experimental freak, but it's
> certainly more common that an X server accepting a connection on port
> 6010 ! May be we should go until 6009, but then it's the camel
> designed by the horse committee. Really, I don't know. Some thoughts
> someone ? Or has someone a beast with 5 displays ?

Actually, 6010 is a common X server port, at least on loopback. That's
the default port that sshd uses on the remote side if you're
tunneling X11 over the ssh connection.

--gilbert