It's all moot since he's running on Windows.
-----Original Message-----
From: George <greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Monday, November 02, 1998 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC, yet related :)] Port access
>On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Jason Wilkins wrote:
>
>>The only thing I can think of is to put your mud on some system port, like
port 80 (HTTP), so that
>
>You have to be root (on Unix) to bind to a port under 1024.
>
>If you do have root, you'll want to be sure to drop root privs after you
>bind().
>
>--
>George Greer, greerga@circlemud.org | Genius may have its limitations, but
>http://mouse.van.ml.org/ (mostly) | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
>http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/ | -- Elbert Hubbard
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