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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:04:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brent Bailey" <misterb@bmyster.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   help!?!?  portmap , what is it used for ?
Message-ID:  <1103.65.175.134.2.1092834260.squirrel@new.host.name>

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forgive me for posting this twice...i forgot what email address is allowd
on this list...anywho..

Im running a freebsd 4.10 and the other morning i noticed this in my
"ps -ax" output.


13560  ??  Is     0:00.00 portmap 218.49.183.17


Now ive denied portmap from /etc/hosts.allow ...however accrding to the
above ps listing ...this IP managed to make a connection to portmap ..
what portmap used for ?? and does this mean the box has been compromised ?


thank you in advance for any help




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Brent Bailey

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Brent Bailey CCNA
Bmyster LLC
Computer Networking and Webhosting
Network Engineer, Webmaster, President
http://www.bmyster.com
mrb@bmyster.com
207-247-8330





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