[Koha] Any downside of running Koha's z39.50 service on port 210?

Indranil Das Gupta indradg at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 02:25:33 NZST 2016


Hi,

On Apr 15, 2016 7:44 PM, "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com>
wrote:

<snipped>

> - run metaproxy or yazproxy to listen on port 210 and pass queries on
> to zebrasrv; if you expect that the Z39.50 target will be heavily
> used, this approach can also save system resources, as metaproxy can
> cache query results.

Thanks! This is good tip!

> - use capabilities and grant zebrasrv an exception so that it can bind
> on a privileged port

Setcap-ing /usr/bin/zebrasrv-2.0 is what I had done before posting. But
this being the first time pushing it on anything other than 9999 I wanted
to know if there's any gotchas that I should keep in mind :-)

> Regards,
>
> Galen

Thanks a lot!

Indranil


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