Selection of Ports for internal website

I have an intranet website that is currently assigned as Port=12345, TCP. I
see that port was exploited by trojans in the past and I thought it would be
good idea change this to a less known number. Do you think that makes sense
?

Also, is there any preference (security wise) when assigining ports, or I
should just pick whatever from 49152 thru 65535 and that 's it ?
Assume this is an internal website.


The Well Known Ports are those from 0 through 1023.

The Registered Ports are those from 1024 through 49151

The Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those from 49152 through 65535

Mark
Mon Apr 25 19:21:51 CDT 2005

... why isnt it on port 80?

A decent scanner would find which port it was in minutes, if not seconds
anyway.

I do not get what you mean 'exploited by trojans'? Web servers really only
get attacked by worms.

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- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com


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>I have an intranet website that is currently assigned as Port=12345, TCP. I
> see that port was exploited by trojans in the past and I thought it would
> be
> good idea change this to a less known number. Do you think that makes
> sense
> ?
>
> Also, is there any preference (security wise) when assigining ports, or I
> should just pick whatever from 49152 thru 65535 and that 's it ?
> Assume this is an internal website.
>
>
> The Well Known Ports are those from 0 through 1023.
>
> The Registered Ports are those from 1024 through 49151
>
> The Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those from 49152 through 65535
>
>
>