On 02/26/11 12:33 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > With IPV6, you don't need to run it on a different port. > Just bind it to a different IP in the same prefix ;-) > So, that port-8080 stuff will be gone pretty soon. > In a year or two. > Cough-cough. when I first saw the spec for IPv6 I mistakenly thought they'd done away with ports entirely, and that you'd just use an IP range for a server for different services... but that would be a mess for DNS, having to use a different hostname for ssh rather than http etc, a physical host would likely use a subdomain in that scheme (ssh.myhost.mydomain.com vs http.myhost.mydomain.com etc etc)