Timeline for What was the design rationale behind multi-port and multiple connections (and back-connections) designs of the early protocols like NFS or FTP?
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| Oct 11, 2020 at 13:26 | comment | added | Stefan Skoglund | SunRPC is intended for LAN type environments but which has machines with different endianess but still thru the definition of the protocols (mount in NFS for example) being able to isolate the application programs from endianess and word size issues. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 13:34 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | It also got you a rather primitive form of service discovery (you could call out to the protmapper on a given system to see what RPC services it's running without having to use any of them). Which is part of the other reason that such a design has fallen out of favor, because it makes life easier for bad actors who get onto the network. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 9:07 | history | answered | Vatine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |