Subj : Re: Reverse Proxy and subdomain help
To   : Patch
From : Al
Date : Mon Apr 08 2024 06:23 pm

> I'm using WWIV right now, and can see what Windows users can leave their port
> set to 23 with no issues, but Linux uses 2323 because Linux blocks that
> port/protocol.

> Ultimately, I'd love to have a way to point a telnet client to
> subdomain.domain.ext without a port number defined and have it work properly.

On linux you can use setcap to give regular users to ability to open ports below 1024. Normally only root can do that. There is page on the Synchronet wiki that explains it nicely..

http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:linux_non-root

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