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Date:      Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:56:48 +1000
From:      Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
To:        Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP <FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: portmap...
Message-ID:  <3B4269D0.551A2FC7@quake.com.au>
References:  <3B423AC7.9030706@digitaldaemon.com>

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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 :)

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