Cockpit master now listens on port 1001

Stef Walter stefw at redhat.com
Tue May 6 11:57:08 UTC 2014


On 06.05.2014 13:56, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Tue 06 May 2014 07:50:46 AM EDT, Stef Walter wrote:
>> On 06.05.2014 13:43, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2014 07:19 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>>>> On 05/06/2014 11:29 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> we just changed the port that Cockpit listens on by
>>>>> default. It's just nicer.
>>> 
>>>> Very much indeed! This will make it a lot easier to remember
>>>>  what to dial in to.
>>> 
>>> Looks like 1001 is not registered to any known service[1]. 
>>> Probably would be a good idea to contact IANA and get this made
>>>  official.
> 
>> Would that work? Or would we just be treated as a website, and
>> told to go port 80?
> 
> 
> No, I think it makes perfect sense to have a separate address for
> a management service. We don't necessarily have to reserve it for 
> Cockpit alone, but perhaps requisition it for "HTTP-based system 
> management consoles".
> 
> Multiplexing port 80 is a hack of the worst kind and I think we
> can make that argument.

Sounds good. Are you interested in writing the IANA?

Stef


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