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

[Fred Wright]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Andreas Meyer wrote:
> 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?

English word meaning "a mess" (sort of). :-)

The problem is that the portmapper concept (services identified by names,
with arbitrary ports) is fairly incompatible with the firewall concept
(services reliably associated with specific port numbers).

                                        Fred Wright

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