From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 19:32:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (ipl-229-037.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5600737B42C for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.w2xo.pgh.pa.us [192.168.5.1]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA63508; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:31:48 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:31:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Durham To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: PORTMAP In-Reply-To: <20000910164314.B23509@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Odhiambo Washington 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;-) > You might want to just disable it for any IP not on your local network by using tcpwrappers. This allows local services that use portmap to still work while disallowing outsiders. See /etc/hosts.allow . -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message