The only recurring socket opening from libtirpc that I can find the straces comes from a function call in clnt_tli_create, e.g.: --> 2873 socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP) = 19 > /lib64/libc-2.27.so(socket+0x7) [0xfb057] > /lib64/libtirpc.so.3.0.0(__rpc_nconf2fd_flags+0x5b) [0x12f2b] > /lib64/libtirpc.so.3.0.0(clnt_tli_create+0x50) [0xd2a0] --<