Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:14:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd and portmapper Message-ID: <199802251414.IAA07995@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <ae1_9802251457@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> from Leif Neland at "Feb 25, 98 02:32:25 pm"
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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
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