> > Have you grepped the source for the single digit "9" ? :-) > > Did you steal that joke from Tim or did he steal it from you? ;-) I stole it from Tim. I actually tried this, but there were too many hits. But Jeremy found a reference to port 9 that seems plausible: ./lib/python/ZODB/tests/testConfig.py: server localhost:9 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)