From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Wed Aug 1 18:32:30 2007 Subject: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs It doesn't appear that the authors of this RFC had it in mind that gophers would *always* appear on port 70: There is nothing to prevent secondary servers or services from running on otherwise named servers or ports other than 70, however these should be reachable via a primary server. Also, the word "should" doesn't mandate compliance. It's a recommendation. --Brian On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:08:42AM -0700, JumpJet Mailbox wrote: > This is the last I will say about Port 70. It comes from the second paragraph of the Introduction, in the Gopher Protocol RFC1436: > > Gopher servers should listen on port 70 (port 70 is assigned to Internet Gopher by IANA). >