From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 24 8:37: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA74837B632 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: from mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk ([192.84.78.5]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 135rz1-000FYZ-00; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:36:35 +0100 Received: from mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (root@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk [192.84.78.3]) by mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA03224; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:36:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: (from jason@localhost) by mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id QAA04819; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:36:33 +0100 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:36:33 +0100 From: Jason Williams To: Eric Walters Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUNRPC on port 111 Message-ID: <20000624163633.G2766@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk References: <000001bfdde4$490a5880$453288cf@ewalters> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000001bfdde4$490a5880$453288cf@ewalters>; from ewalters@nms2001.com on Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:58:32AM -0500 X-Disclaimer-1: Nothing in this mail is guaranteed to be definitive or correct. X-Disclaimer-2: Nothing in this mail should be considered to represent anything but my own personal opinion. X-Lighthearted: So there :-p Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:58:32AM -0500, Eric Walters wrote: > I ran a port scan on my newly configured freebsd system and I have a port > 111 (SUNRPC) listed. Can anyone tell me what this is and if I can shut it > off. I am trying to make this system as secure as possible. That's the RPC portmapper... it gets used, for example, for NIS and NFS, among other things. Use "rpcinfo -p" to see what (if any) rpc services are currently being used. -- "Now that's an idea. Spearmint flavored rye bread. Mmm. Hey, I just said it was an idea. I didn't say it was a good idea. " -- Larry Wall jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk khendon@compsoc.man.ac.uk secretary@compsoc.man.ac.uk admin@compsoc.org.uk (finger jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk for PGP public key) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message