Open Stack

OpenStack could request a port number be assigned for default use:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6335

-- mark

> On Apr 29, 2016, at 8:26 AM, John Dickinson <me at not.mn> wrote:
> 
> The "bind_port" setting in Swift's config files is required to be explicitly set. It doesn't matter what the number is. If you have a port conflict with another service, feel free to change it.
> 
> As to why port 6000 was used initially... The truth is probably lost to the mists of time. However, I know that "we're listening for X11 on the storage boxes of our object storage system" was never a concern :-)
> 
> There's an open patch to change the docs to use a different port, but for now, feel free to use another port number which is more convenient for you.
> 
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 29 Apr 2016, at 4:51, Peter Brouwer wrote:
>> 
>>> On 29/04/2016 10:12, Peter Brouwer wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> When looking at the ports used by the system I noticed port 6000 is already in use before starting the swift services.
>>> 
>>> In the swift object-server.conf file the default port setting is 6000 to, so yes when starting the swift object server there is an error message in the corresponding log file and the object-service is put in a maintenance state.
>>> 
>>> How do I find out which other unix process is using this 6000 port, it seems that 6001 is in the range (6000-6007)  commonly used by x11. Why did the swift openstack folks pick the same port range for their storage services processes?
>> To followup on the last q, port 6000 is used by X11 if you enable tcp listening option ( part of startx or in gdm config file)
>> This is considered a non secure situation and not recommended, but it leaves the risk of swift using a same port as x11 if an admin chooses to use the tcp listen option for remote X11 connections (vnc)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Peter Brouwer, Principal Software Engineer,
>> Oracle Application Integration Engineering.
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>> E-Mail: Peter.Brouwer at Oracle.com
>> 
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