[NCLUG] I was hacked!

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It kinda lives on in the service broker stuff that's
part of CORBA. Ugh... Instead of remote procedure calls
you get remote object methods. Now I'm way off the topic.

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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:54:45PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:30:39PM -0700, Mike Loseke wrote:
> > Yep, if you aren't running Sun(tm) services like NFS or NIS then you
> >shouldn't need portmapper at all. It's basically someone at Sun's weird
> >idea of getting around inetd (and it's ilk) by re-implementing it using
> >registered numbers that aren't ports. :-P
> 
> portmapper is used for all sorts of RPC services...  It just so happens
> that there really isn't much used regularly as far as RPC goes excet
> for NFS and NIS.  I don't know that it has any benefits over using
> a well-known port.  It was an idea that was tried out and just didn't
> really work.  The idea being that you would ask a machine if it
> supported certain things and if so where to find those services.  The
> problem was that it didn't solve the problem of identifying services
> without collisions -- IIRC you still had to use numbers.
> 
> Sean
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