I'd like to refine that a tad: The only 'stupid question' is the one
that clearly shows the questioner made zero attempt to find out an
answer on his own.

Hence the popularity of the phrase: 'Google is your friend'.

[In this case, I think the original question showed some
misunderstanding of what a port really is, which meant a good
opportunity to, say, broadly discuss logic points, how ports are used,
what 'assigned' means, etc. But even on security-basics, a question
like "what do the letters VPN stand for?" (real example) can be
discouraging - not because it's 'stupid', but because of a demonstrated
lack of initiative on the questioner's part.]

JMO on what is probably headed for the dead-thread bin. :)

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