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Subject: Re: Gopher server on a unix host
From: Dave Hayes <dave @ elxr . Jpl . Nasa . Gov>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 18:19:01 -0800
To: Firewalls @ greatcircle . com

> I have heard great fear regarding running gopher service on a bastion host.
> The general tone of these concerns is that gopher is *too* willing to go
> do things "fer" its clients.

On a similar note, I saw a Mosaic URL like "http://localhost:19";. Works
no matter what firewall you've got...eh? This crashes the browser (after 
a while) to be sure...turns out this can also crash some machines. I wonder 
if there are other links that could be problems? 
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Dave Hayes - Institutional Network & Communications - JPL/NASA - Pasadena CA
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 nasa .
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 nasa .
 gov         ...usc!elroy!dxh

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.


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