[Gllug] sorts of ports

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 4 Sep 2001, Bruce at mailer.cafod, Richardson at mailer.cafod wrote:
>The system of known ports, where standard services use specific ports, is 
>a hack from the early days of the net.  Many alternatives have been 
>suggested, often involving extensions to DNS (your cue, Alex).  Inertia 
>has kept the status quo.  Any solution will have to be robust and 
>backwards-compatible.

What about the portmapper? (And any Sun admin can tell you what a
horror that is.)

>Building firewalls could be much easier under such a solution, for one 
>thing.

I doubt it; a machine can still offer something and claim it's
something else.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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