From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 7:33:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C69E37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6GEWt713903; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:32:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:32:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Murray Taylor Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS and firewalls - what do I allow? Message-ID: <20010716093254.C5696@dan.emsphone.com> References: <051301c10dc1$b0cc1ae0$2a7627cb@pc99101401.bytecraft.au.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <051301c10dc1$b0cc1ae0$2a7627cb@pc99101401.bytecraft.au.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message