Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:32:12 -0600 From: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: portmap Message-ID: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B104597E7@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
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In addition it is probably helpful to mention that those RPC calls are usually heavily associated with NFS and/or NIS . If you aren't running those..then you are probably okay. Of course, there may be other things which require the RPC calls, but you would probably already know about the RPC stuff if you were running them ;) Henrik --- Henrik Hudson Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Suresh Ramasubramanian Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:21 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmap Tim McMillen rearranged electrons thusly: > mentioned there or in /etc/rpc, but how would I know? I install lots > of ports to learn about things. Is there anything unexpected that > could break if I put portmap_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf ? No.. nothing will break. If you are not running a portmap / sunrpc service, dont use it :) from man portmap > Portmap is a server that converts RPC program numbers into DARPA protocol > port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. This advice is much more useful if you are running a production machine / anything on a static (or even a long lease dhcp) IP, unprotected by a firewall. Leaving several open ports open makes it much easier for some 31337 h4x0r d00d to break into your machine. You can do a custom install and choose not to install portmap / run it at startup ... -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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