Re: Wondering if this is a security issue?
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]> Tue, 5 May 2026 18:08:09 +0100
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On 5 May 2026, at 13:00, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Holy smokes !! Layer upon layer of cruft which has become mainstream in our lives… Exactly. Of course CL is not without some of that archaeology, but various bits of Unixoid systems are rife with it. The whole 'port number' thing is as you say insane. Either you do some dance involving IANA or I think you're on your own. And it was so close to being solved: NFS needs a way of mapping RPC program numbers to ports and it does this using a portmapper which sits on 111 and which you ask. That ... could have been extended. (I think probably the reason for not having these things is they can be horrible security risks.) --tim _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html