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Grex Mud Item 14: help!
Entered by howl on Mon Dec 30 01:52:40 UTC 1996:

When you have an adress, like intense.netaxs.com 4000 what does the 4000 mean?

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by unknown on Sat Jan 4 23:32:20 1997:

the 4000 is the port number

#2 of 7 by morris on Thu Jan 23 02:21:39 1997:

It is ithe port on the server...

#3 of 7 by ace on Tue Feb 25 16:29:23 1997:

any one here heard  of dragon heart?

#4 of 7 by glyciren on Fri Apr 24 21:32:34 1998:

Whats that got to do with ?s about port numbers?

#5 of 7 by sreeramr on Sun May 24 11:04:14 1998:

hi all
        I am totally new to mud. i have installed a game called zmud it
connects to internet but dont know how to play it can anyone help me?

#6 of 7 by kuran on Mon Jul 13 19:57:28 1998:

Technically...
  4000 is the port number.  A server running Unix (or Linux) has an IP 
address, which is its address on the internet.  The machine also has 
port numbers.  (0 - 65535 or so).  This is another level of address.  If 
you are running a mud at the address a.mud.here on port 4000, then the 
MUD server program watches port 4000 for incoming data.  Your MUD 
client, lets say zmud, sends data to a.mud.here and specifies that it is 
to go to port 4000.  This way, you can have multiple muds or any other 
internet program running on one server and they all keep their data 
seperate.

#7 of 7 by lumen on Fri Oct 9 01:18:33 1998:

what he said

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