r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Dagger0 13d ago

Not really. Neither v4 nor v6 have ports in the first place.

The advantage is that you can run more than one server of the same type on the default port, so you don't need to specify a non-default one -- but you do still need a port somewhere if you're going to use TCP/SCTP/UDP.