[Miami] Re: DNS lookups thru NAT from BeOS / QNX

[Andreas Meyer]

On 07-Apr-00 Fred wrote:

> What really wreaks havoc with firewalls is the Unix RPC stuff, where
> services get assigned ports dynamically, and the client contacts the
> portmapper to determine the current assignment for a given service.  The
> poor firewall doesn't easily have a clue what's going on.

As a UNIX newbie may I ask why you are refering to havoc in this case? What
means havoc?

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