rpcbind lingering on IP no longer specified on command line

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Fri Jan 6 07:22:45 PST 2006


On Jan 6, 2006, at 4:40 AM, James Long wrote:

>> Yeah, I noticed that little tiny "UDP requests" note in the -h docs
>> too.  There's no reason to bind to all tcp addresses, and it is
>> causing me heartburn for getting the server certified...
>
> Good grief, why not just firewall off the undesired UDP ports and call
> it good?

I guess we could take that band-aid approach... however, how do you  
know what port RPC decides to listen on other than the 111 port?  It  
is more or less random.  That makes it very difficult to firewall.



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