12 Feb
2002
12 Feb
'02
15:58
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:35, you wrote:
...do these programs do the same thing, if so how do I configure portmap. I have fond out that the srevice is running and want to fix some ports that I amallowing like 111, and 222. Or can I just shut off the protmapping service and just keep rhinetd.
I think you mean portmap(8), which is the Sun RPC portmapper, used to allow clients of services like NIS and NFS to connect to correct port numbers. This is one program you don't want accessible from outside, and having it running on a firewall at all is dubious. Rob