A couple of days ago, I had a question about the port for events and
XP SP2 firewall. The solution was to change the firebird.conf file,
open that port on the firewall and restart the firebird server.

No problem. Works beautifully! But there is a feature that I would
like to suggest for the next release.

Why can't we get a registered port for Events.

There are several unused ports in the registered area. If you happen
to choose one that another application is using then I assume your
client app won't work correctly.

I can see it now! I have a client 3000 miles away who suddenly starts
complaining that my application isn't working. After days of sweating
it out, trying to figure whats wrong, I hop a plane, fly out there
only to discover the secretary has downloaded "Bozo's ButterBars and
Bananas" gaming software from the internet which happens to have
registered the port I am using.

I don't have a client 3000 miles away, I've never heard of Bozo's, and
I did choose an unregistered port up in the wild blue yonder, but a
registered port for this feature might be a better solution in todays
environment.

Dixon Epperson