Re: TL source port

Hi Bruno,

On Fri, 2025-09-12 at 14:24 +0200, Bruno Voisin via tex-live wrote:
> Inquiring with the sysadmins, it appears port 8369 is blocked for
> outgoing traffic at the university level (affecting both LAN and
> wifi). Is there some specific reason for choosing this port, that I
> could bring forward when asking for the port to be unblocked?

The SVN web interface has a few million dynamically-generated pages, so
we occasionally have some issues with crawlers overloading it and
bringing down the server. Since the SVN web interface is much less
important than the rest of tug.org, we're hosting it on a separate port
so that if/when it goes down, it doesn't take out the rest of the web
pages.

Why port 8369 specifically? Well HTTP is port 80, and SVN is port 3690,
so 80+3690=8369.

Thanks,
-- Max