[linux-audio-dev] Re: OSC vs MIDI

[Joern Nettingsmeier]

Andrew Burgess wrote:
>>On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 06:55, Steve Harris wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 05:40:12 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Service discovery just covers being able to locate liblo servers
>>>>
>>>>I wonder if it's possible to use portmap for service discovery?
>>>
>>>I dont know, but I think you shouldn't :)
>>>
> 
> 
>>Seconded.  There is a good reason that portmap has been around for 20
>>years or so and only NFS uses it.
> 
> 
> Please tell us what that reason is...
> Thanks in advance

well, you never know which ports to expect. this makes portmapped 
services basically useless through firewalls and very hard if not 
impossible to tunnel.
any service that uses the portmapper is limited to single subnets in 
practice, preferably trusted ones.


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