Exploring Network Ports and Daemons in Communication Services

A nice quick summary of what ports and services are by the folks at O'Reilly. "Each service is handled by a program called a "daemon." The daemon listens on, or is bound to, a specific port to receive incoming requests from . . . A nice quick summary of what ports and services are by the folks at O'Reilly. "Each service is handled by a program called a "daemon." The daemon listens on, or is bound to, a specific port to receive incoming requests from clients. When a request comes to the server, it is routed to the port requested and the daemon listening on that port sends back the reply."