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Re: Security and Obscurity: Changing Daemon Ports I operate several http and ftp servers, some on standard ports and some on non-standard ports. The non-standard port servers are not subjected to the cgi/php hack attempts or brute force password attacks that I see daily on the standard port services.
The main reason I operate the non-standard port servers is that those particular servers are not intended for access by the general public, and also because I am too cheap to spend the money for the additional IPv4 addresses. The clean log entries do however attest to at least some additional security by using non-standard ports.
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