[Mulgara-dev] [Topaz-dev] connecting to mulgara on remote server requiresallowing connections to a random high port

[Russell Uman]

> 
>     1. iptables (or a proxy) is able to sniff the randomly 
> assigned port in the
>        return data from the RMI registry and opens that to 
> the world. I did a
>        google search and did not find anything here. Maybe 
> others on the list
>        know of a better solution.

the way this is handled, in linux, for FTP (which has a similar issue)
is with an ip_conntrack kernel module. not sure how easy/hard it is to
write one of these for a specific application...


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