[ivlad]

I got a port assigned a few years ago.

I needed to write a justification why the organisation I represented needs a port number (a custom binary protocol), a formal confirmation that protocol has versioning built-in (so we will not request for a new port number for the next version of the protocol), a confirmation that we have a running code implementing the protocol (if I recall correctly, link to documentation was sufficient), and the reasons why we cannot use any of the existing protocols.

It’s not impossible and I think it’s totally doable for redis unless the port is already reserved for something else.