On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:22:42PM -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: > I recently install portsentry by psionic on my system. It seems like people > are trying to scan port 111 pretty often. /etc/services says that this is > the sunrpc port. Anytime portsentry detects a scan it adds an ipchains rule > to block all traffic from that host. What I am wondering is if there is any > legitimate reason for scanning or attempting to connect to port 111 or are > these people really trying something funny on my system. This is just a > personal web server doing nothing important.
Unless you're providing public NFS service, or some other RPC thing, then no, there's no good reason whatsoever. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE