Re: Port Mapping Questions

[John B]

Hi Mark,

> Yes - in retrospect, that's what we should have done.
>
> The trouble is, the "additional port binding" bit is in the
spec, and was
> already out, and widely in use before I picked up on it.

Yep, we made the same mistake with xPL as well - but we corrected it.

> We have discussed
> this in the past, and decided to pretty much leave it "as
is" in the
> interests of stability.

We had to go through changing all our apps to bind to the correct port
range,
and I don't think we ran into any stability issues.

> Worth noting that xAPplications _do_ check for other applications
bound to a
> port first, so the problem only occurs if the other application starts
AFTER
> a xAPplication binds... and it won't be the first to start either :-(
>
> I'm aware of at least one home installation with over a hundred xAP
> applications running... but nothing like the 226 that would be
required to
> hit xPL.... and they certainly AREN'T all on the same PC :-) (most are
> hardware telemetry devices.)

OK, I'd agree that xPL was probably a bad example as it's sufficiently
distant
from xAP in terms of port numbers.

Personally, I'd rather make my software compliant, and put in the time and
effort needed to ensure that there weren't any stability issues - but I
guess
that's a choice that people have to make.

Regards,

John