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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:32:54 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Murray Taylor <taylorm@bytecraftsystems.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS and firewalls - what do I allow?
Message-ID:  <20010716093254.C5696@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <051301c10dc1$b0cc1ae0$2a7627cb@pc99101401.bytecraft.au.com>
References:  <051301c10dc1$b0cc1ae0$2a7627cb@pc99101401.bytecraft.au.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 16), Murray Taylor said:
> Akkk   Im fighting a battle with a switch and a NIS system .. so
> tcpdump is not showing me what I need to see... or I havent asked it
> the right questions...
> 
> What port(s) do I need to open in a firewall so that a server can
> access the NIS master??
> 
> I only (at this time) want 1 client to see the NIS Master so I can
> share the passwd stuff easily between a Samba file server and my IMAP
> server ..

Unfortunately, you need to open a whole lot (ports 1-1024).  NIS uses
the RPC service, which will end up using a range of ports scattered
through the reserved port range.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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