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From: Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Random UDP port assignment for rpc.statd
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:10:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050220141037.GA7686@s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108908221.27120.26.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

[Trond Myklebust]

> su den 20.02.2005 Klokka 12:13 (+0100) skreiv Haakon Riiser:

>> Why isn't it possible to specify all of statd's listening
>> ports using the -p flag?  It works for the TCP port and one
>> of the UDP ports, but there is always one more listening UDP
>> port that is randomly assigned.  [...]

> rpc.statd needs some ports for communication with the portmapper
> and the lockd manager on the loopback net, and this is probably
> what you are seeing. There should be nothing that needs to be
> allowed firewall access, though.

Actually, I wanted to /block/ this port in the firewall, not open
for external access.  My firewall allows everything by default, and
has rules to block ports that shouldn't be visible to the world.
Should I be concerned about this port being unblocked?

-- 
 Haakon


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-20 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-20 11:13 Random UDP port assignment for rpc.statd Haakon Riiser
2005-02-20 14:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-02-20 14:10   ` Haakon Riiser [this message]
2005-02-20 15:30     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-02-20 16:43       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-02-20 17:04         ` Haakon Riiser
2005-02-28  3:21         ` Neil Brown
2005-02-20 17:21 ` Haakon Riiser
2005-02-20 17:38   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-02-20 18:01     ` Haakon Riiser
2005-02-28  3:32 ` Sven Köhler
2005-02-28 23:53   ` Dan Stromberg

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