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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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