From: "jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Maybe you need to open port 5901 for incoming connections in your > > iptables. > > 5901?? it uses 5900 ... why 5901? > > 590x means 1 for screen :1 2 for screen:2 etc.. > It's still a valid question. > Perhaps the more valid question is why haven't the VNC people properly > registered their ports with IANA? Because using screen:0 till screen:1000 at the same time will cover ports 5900-6900 etc. FTP uses random data ports, so only 21 is registered and not all the other thousands of ports in use :) Besides, look at the dates : # /etc/services: # $Id: services,v 1.33 2003/03/14 16:41:47 notting Exp $ # # Network services, Internet style # # Note that it is presently the policy of IANA to assign a single well-known # port number for both TCP and UDP; hence, most entries here have two entries # even if the protocol doesn't support UDP operations. # Updated from RFC 1700, ``Assigned Numbers'' (October 1994). Not all ports # are included, only the more common ones. The file is more then 10 years old. I use nmap for service names because that is much more recenter than the old (useless?) services file. Danny
