Vulnerability Development: Re: Apple Mac DoS

["Daniel J. Luke" <dluke () GEEKLAIR NET>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:04:46AM -0800, Ian Stoba wrote:
> I would assume that the svrloc service running on port 427 is some sort of
> server discovery protocol. I don't know this for sure since the version of
> Inside AppleTalk I have at hand predates the IP services.
I believe that that port is used by Apple's implementation of SLP (to allow the Network Browser to autodiscover shared 
drives, printers, etc.)

This is intended to replace NBP which is what the "Chooser" uses for 'traditional' service location.

There is a lot of good (recent) documentation available at apple's developer site.

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