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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:28:35 +0100
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ensuring inetd is started before any RPC services
Message-ID:  <4534A243.7060301@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061017082319.I27675@ramstind.fig.ol.no>
References:  <20061017082319.I27675@ramstind.fig.ol.no>

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Trond Endrestøl wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have on many occasions run into the situation where the RPC based 
> services have occupied the well-known ports for other non-RPC based 
> services. Last week rpc.lockd on one of my systems got hold of TCP 
> port 995, leaving inetd unable to start any pop3s services.
>   

Another fix for this is to add flags to the daemons themselves to allow 
the RPC services to be bound by port number. I added this to mountd so 
that I could bind its port on startup for running mountd on a DMZ host, 
thus enabling mountd access to be filtered in the firewall.

Regards,
BMS





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