On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Jason Wilkins wrote:
>The only thing I can think of is to put your mud on some system port, like port 80 (HTTP), so that
You have to be root (on Unix) to bind to a port under 1024.
If you do have root, you'll want to be sure to drop root privs after you
bind().
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