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The (short) story of how the SSH port became 22.
(www.ssh.com)
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The story is he asked IANA for port 22. They gave him port 22.
Why did this need to be a blog post?
It's an interesting story anyway, kind of fun how the early days of the internet people just decided to build stuff and that random little tool from decades ago continue to be the backbone of much of the world. Imagine if all that stuff was proprietary...
True of many things we take for granted now. It would be a different world entirely. Another non-computer example would be the 3-point seat belt that Volvo left as an open patent, saving countless lives over the past decades.
This could've been an email
It also explains why it's 22
The story is interesting though.
What part of the story are you referring to? The part where he asked for port 22 or the part where he got it?