[NTLUG:Discuss] Allocating Port addresses.

[Steve Baker]

I'm not much of a network expert - but the game I'm writing
right now has to work in a client/server mode.  I have a handy
library that hides most of the nastiness - so I'm not concerned
about that.

One thing I'm puzzled about though.  My TCP and UDP messages
have to be addressed by hostname and port number as you'd expect.

My question is - how the heck do I pick a valid port number?

Clearly I'll want to avoid the ones in /etc/services but beyond
that there seems to be no guidance.

Are there acceptable ranges for games?  Any that I should avoid
because they're likely to be filtered by the intervening network?

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