Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:31:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PORTMAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009110229010.63109-100000@w2xo.w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <20000910164314.B23509@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello pals, > I need to know whether I will be calling for trouble disabling portmap and > how to do it. This is on FBSD 3.4-R. Some guy seems to be so busy scanning > my network and I guess this is a way to settle the score with him;-) > You might want to just disable it for any IP not on your local network by using tcpwrappers. This allows local services that use portmap to still work while disallowing outsiders. See /etc/hosts.allow . -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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