Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:06:45 +0000
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rpcbind lingering on IP no longer specified on command line
Message-ID:  <1136459205.11648.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <D0C52AF2-A5A9-42BF-8CD8-CFC01235D92C@khera.org>
References:  <A97CE7DE-1841-41D0-B702-E82761FCDD3B@khera.org> <43BC24E7.6090800@FreeBSD.org> <D0C52AF2-A5A9-42BF-8CD8-CFC01235D92C@khera.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:44 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> > What does 'sockstat | grep rpcbind' tell you?
> 
> # sockstat | grep rpcbind
> root     rpcbind    11382 5  stream /var/run/rpcbind.sock
> root     rpcbind    11382 6  dgram  -> /var/run/logpriv
> root     rpcbind    11382 7  udp4   127.0.0.1:111         *:*
> root     rpcbind    11382 8  udp4   192.168.100.200:111   *:*
> root     rpcbind    11382 9  udp4   *:664                 *:*
> root     rpcbind    11382 10 tcp4   *:111                 *:*
> 
> As Dmitry Morozovsky points out, it seems it always listens to tcp *: 
> 111 which seems to be a bad thing.  I'm running 6.0-RELEASE-p1.
> 
> This came up because of some security scans we're having run for some  
> compliance certificates we need...
> 
> Can anyone explain why rpcbind will still bind to all tcp interfaces?

Although I believe this is a bug, it is actually working as documented:

from rpcbind(8):
     -h bindip
             Specify specific IP addresses to bind to for UDP requests.

Gavin



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1136459205.11648.4.camel>