INN commit: trunk/doc/pod (news.pod)

[Ray Banana]

Russ Allbery wrote:

>> +By default, innbind(8) refuses to bind to any port under 1024 other
>> +than 119, 433 and 563 for security reasons.  In order to run B<innd> or
>> +B<nnrpd> on a different port under 1024, you will have to use the
>> +B<--with-innd-port> configure option if there is only one supplementary
>> +port to use.  Otherwise, you can use inetd(8), xinetd(8), or some
>> +equivalent, to achieve your need.
> 
> While innbind is new in 2.5, this restriction was previously implemented
> by inndstart, so I don't think it's really new.

I think it is new as far as *nnrpd* is concerned. I used to compile
INN --with-innd-port=433 in order to have innd use that port rather than
 119 and run multiple nnrpd daemons on ports like 80, 443 etc. With INN
2.5 this does not work any more.