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This capsule was recovered from orbit, SpaceX boosters are not orbital at all and are just falling basically


To be fair, orbit is also "just falling, basically".


I guess the Dragon capsule doesn't count because it lands in water just slightly offshore, lol


Water is famously not soil.


There's this wiki page that's pretty cool https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_num...


Wikipedia's list is better than the official one because it explains what some of those protocols actually are – especially the early ones which don't have any RFC specified in IANA's registry.

Although, in several cases, there is an RFC, even though IANA's registry doesn't record it. For example, port 1 (tcpmux / TCP Port Service Multiplexer) uses a protocol defined by RFC1078, as Wikipedia's article on it helpfully explains – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Port_Service_Multiplexer – but IANA's registry doesn't mention that.

Or similarly, port 5 is listed as rje / Remote Job Entry in the registry, but Wikipedia helpfully notes that it is the protocol defined by RFC407 (and maybe RFC725 is a newer version of it?). I doubt that ARPANET RJE protocol (whose syntax resembles FTP, SMTP, etc) ever saw any great amount of implementation; I believe historically the most popular RJE protocols were IBM's (2780/3780 and later Network Job Entry / NJE which was used in RSCS, most notably on BITNET) – but those protocols don't have an assigned port number, since they don't natively run on top of TCP/IP.

There are however some historical mysteries in this IANA registry for which even Wikipedia does not know the answer: the first of many is what ports 2 and 3, "compressnet", were used for. (Edit: What Wikipedia doesn't know, HN does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37016159


Seconded. I made some Anki cards out of the table of the "Well-known ports" table and it has proven surprisingly helpful fingertip knowledge for my kind of work (Linux systems and small scale networks in odd places).


Notably: port 666 - "Doom, the first online first-person shooter"

I'd like to see that email to IANA.


There's rail service to the stadium on event days, through a rail shuttle from Secaucus to Metlife https://www.njtransit.com/meadowlands


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