Please excuse my possible lack of coherency; I have yet to have any coffee, and I just mediated a battle on IRC, so mehhh
I had a very similar experience a few weeks back. There's that problem with the thing where the thing is like "hey, Imma use this random port" and then the other thing is like "oh no you diint". So then they fight about it. I have debian boxes (against my wishes) and gentoo boxes in my mix. The following article was of great use to me: http://wiki.debian.org/SecuringNFS -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
