alt Hacker NewsI always recommend to use weird numbers for different tasks. That way, you can see "oh my system is under severe load at *:13 (or 17, 23, 42, ...). That must be this cron job"
I always recommend to use weird numbers for different tasks. That way, you can see "oh my system is under severe load at *:13 (or 17, 23, 42, ...). That must be this cron job"
I do a similar thing with ping payload sizes to be able to fingerprint the traffic: I’ll use prime numbered packet sizes so that they can be detected even when the packet sizes are summed.
Btw, one of those numbers is not like the others (has more prime factors that evenly divide 60).