Significance of port 655?

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Sat Jun 24 13:52:22 CEST 2017


On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:34:44PM -0700, Nirmal Thacker wrote:

> - Are there any risks to be aware of, with opening and forwarding port 655?
> Why would one choose to run tincd on a non-standard port?

There are no risks to opening/forwarding port 655. Reasons for running
tincd on a non-standard port might be that you are running it as a
regular user, or that you want to run more than one tinc daemon on a
single computer, in which case they each need their own port.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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