From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 06:14:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18102 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18027 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA07995; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:14:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199802251414.IAA07995@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: inetd and portmapper To: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:14:18 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Leif Neland at "Feb 25, 98 02:32:25 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Leif Neland said: > I am a little unsure about what inetd and portmapper does. > As far as I know, inetd looks at a bunch of ports, described in > /etc/inetd.conf, and if somebody connects to say port 119, it starts the popper > program. (The number is probably wrong, but the principle..) Yep, 119 is network news. POP3 is 110, POP2 is 109. > What does portmapper then do? portmap maps RPC program numbers to ports (in inetd). Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message