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The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers smarmelling.com

Why we all default to the same port numbers

18 points•smarmelling•3 days ago•1 comment•

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Neywiny3 days ago

Funny you mention 1234, which is the gdb server default port I brought

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