Error in Myers on Well Known Ports?

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Has anyone noticed in the Net+ MM book (p293) that he references the TCP/IP well known ports as being 0 to 1204?

Is this just a typo, and he means 0 to 1024? (Although it's also printed as being 0 to 1204 in the glossary)

However most sources on the net as well as my exam cram book quote the range as 0 to 1023 and the next range (the registered ports) start at 1024 to 49151

So what's right and what's wrong?

(P.S. It's the third edition of the book)

 

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My money is on you

The well known ports are all listed here

 

I would say it's a typo. If you count from 0 to 1023 you come up with total of 1024 ports. I know I've mistakenly typed in 1024 when thinking of the top dynamic port number because I've been thinking total number of ports in my mind. It's an easy mistake to make and I'll bet you it would get by a whole lot of proofreaders just because there are 1024 ports of that designation.

 

Rule 1 for any tech book - go to the web-site for the book and get the errata!

You will find the errata for this book corrects that error! (But not some other errors!)

Harry.

 

Well spotted!