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Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service?
From: "mlist" <mlist () budget co nz>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:53:06 +1300
What is The RPC exactly ? The RPC is a Protocol or a winXP-win2000-Service or a Port? www.Rabertgraham.com says that it is a Protocol . My windows says it is a Service . Some other articles says that it is a Port .
IMO, RPC itself is a protocol, but it's perfectly valid to refer to the RPC port, or service... I guess the problem is definitions. A protocol is similar to a language - a defined way for two programs to talk to each other. So there is an RPC protocol that defines how you talk RPC to another (Windows) computer. A port is similar to a TV channel - a program can choose which 'channel' it wants to use to communicate. The RPC program on Windows always uses the same port(s?) to communicate, so those are the RPC ports. A service is simply a program that runs on Windows, designed to perform a task - like a daemon on Unix. The file sharing service, the DNS lookup service, the contact Microsoft with your personal details service (heh heh)... so the RPC service is the program running that listens to the RPC port and implements the RPC protocol :)
[""Various errors with 127.0.0.1 : Some servers are misconfigured to map this address. On the other hand, it is also a hacker technique to cause names within the hacker domain to resolve to addresses within a company (including localhost/127.0.0.1).""] And my question is : How do they (Crackers) do that ?
My guess would be mucking around with the hosts file... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Mr Babak Memari (Nov 25)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Byron Sonne (Nov 26)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? rkc (Nov 26)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Creed Erickson (Nov 26)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Jimi Thompson (Nov 26)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Markus Müssig (Nov 26)
- Re[2]: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Alexander Lukyanenko (Nov 26)
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- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Dave Killion (Nov 26)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? Alexander Lukyanenko (Nov 26)
- Re: Is The RPC a Protocol or a winXP-Service? mlist (Nov 26)