From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 12:42:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.root-servers.ch (beta.root-servers.ch [195.49.33.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5074137B422 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 46535 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2000 19:42:50 -0000 Received: from client74-19.hispeed.ch (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.74.19) by beta.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 10 Sep 2000 19:42:50 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:45:30 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.46 Beta/3) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <55272112156.20000910214530@buz.ch> To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PORTMAP In-reply-To: <20000910164314.B23509@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> References: <20000910164314.B23509@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Odhiambo, Sunday, September 10, 2000, 3:43:14 PM, you wrote: > Hello pals, > I need to know whether I will be calling for trouble disabling portmap and > how to do it. This is on FBSD 3.4-R. Some guy seems to be so busy scanning > my network and I guess this is a way to settle the score with him;-) If you don't use any RPC services (NFS springs into mind though I'm still not sure about the connection of the two) then you can safely deactivate it in /etc/rc.conf. All systems, on which we deactivated it, work without any problems. If you get hit by scans often, you might also consider (if you didn't already) to install either ipfw or ipf with some restrictive ruleset Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message