Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:02:49 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: "Kave p.Ram" <hotkaveh@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a question about sunrpc service Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001282300270.289-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <20000129063955.80415.qmail@hotmail.com>
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what you're looking at is the portmapper service for RPC (remote procedure calls) requests. this is for NFS and related services. if you're not running NFS, or you are not needing any RPC services, put=20 portmap_enable=3D"NO" in your /etc/rc.conf. generally, it's a good idea to not have that on to begin with. -- jan On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Kave p.Ram wrote: > Hi ! >=20 > when I run `netstat -a=B4 I can see 2 rows like : > =03 > tcp 0 0 *.sunrpc *.* LISTEN > udp 0 0 *.sunrpc *.* > ....... > ........ >=20 > among other services. > but I can't see no such a service in /etc/inet.conf , however > a look at /etc/services shows me : >=20 > sunrpc 111/tcp rpcbind #SUN Remote Procedure Call > sunrpc 111/udp rpcbind #SUN Remote Procedure Call >=20 > now I wonder if it's necessery to have this service running on port 111= =20 > which uses both udp & tcp protocols or not ? >=20 > this machine is just a workstation connectod to a LAN by vr0 and doesn't= =20 > serve any other machines . >=20 > Thanx for any suggestion :-) > /kave > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan=20 "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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