On: 65535 interfaces ought to be enough for anybody

[phicoh]

Easy to do with DNS SRV records. Just add: _http._tcp.hostname SRV priority weight port target. and you can use any available port you like.

Of course, current TCP has 16-bit ports hard coded. But IPv6 has almost unlimited addresses.

For some reason, SRV records are not in wide spread use.

[pixl97 → phicoh]

>For some reason, SRV records are not in wide spread use.

No legacy tooling supports it. Poor support on the products already there. Huge numbers of firewalls are hard coded to 80:443 so alternate ports would be blocked.

When you make a poor choice on the internet, it lasts forever.