From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 3 17:54:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDE037B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaltorak@quake.com.au) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5724aadf) with ESMTP id tlybaaaa for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:53:30 +1000 Message-ID: <3B4269D0.551A2FC7@quake.com.au> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:56:48 +1000 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Knepper Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: portmap... References: <3B423AC7.9030706@digitaldaemon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Knepper wrote: > > All to sudden I see messages appear in the log about portmap... > > Of course I have portmap access disabled using /etc/hosts.allow and also > run a firewall, but I wondered what port portmap runs on? > > Also, what services really require portmap to run? portmap is used to map sun rpc's to ports because there are way too many of them to reserve a set port number for basicaly... So portmap doesnt run on any one port... It converts rpc numbers to ports so they can be accessed... You need to use portmap when you are running any server that needs make rpc calls, NFS being one of those... Hope that clears it up a bit :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message