On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 20:57:38 +0000, Kozman Balint wrote:
> Sorry for the stupid question, but what is the funny 'sunrpc - 111' port?
That's portmap(8).
> I scanned my site, and found it open, but I didn't set it up in inetd.conf
> and don't know which daemon listens it.
It is used in dealing with RPC (Remote Procedure Calls), on which in
particular NFS is based.
The portmap daemon is started by /etc/init.d/portmap, not by inetd.
HTH,
Ray
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