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		emmelaich on Feb 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How SSH port became 22 (2017) ssh also used to use source port 22. At least a popular implementation of it did. A bit of websearching didn't find it; anyone else remember this?

zamadatix on Feb 13, 2024 [–]

Wouldn't that have meant you couldn't ssh out of a machine running an ssh server since the port was already bound to another process?

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