[nylug-talk] constant port number for rstatd?

[Chris Knadle]

On Monday 24 December 2007, Brian Gupta wrote:
> Can you explain why you want this? Is it a firewall issue?

   It shouldn't be, or if it is it should be part of a LAN<->LAN firewall 
issue: rstatd (and all RPC services, really, IIRC) is meant for use on the 
local network, not the internet.  AFAIK exposing the portmapper to the 
internet is a security risk due to the port remapping features of RPC, and 
it's recommended to remove the portmapper unless it's required.

> On Dec 24, 2007 1:29 PM, C Thala <cthala at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running rstatd through portmapper/rpcbind. It seems that  rstatd
> > runs on a different port every time I start the service (rpcinfo -p
> > verifies this.) How can I get it to stick to the same port?

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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