[GLLUG] Ports > 65535 with netcat

Karl Schuttler rexykik at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 15:05:19 EST 2009


When you specify a port above 65535 in netcat, such as 70000, it does
<high invalid port>-65536 and uses that port number (4464 in 70000's
case i think). Can anyone come up with a good reason _why_ netcat does
this, code wise? What makes it do this?


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