Ok, I guess the uninstall of portmap didn't kill the process. After killing it, and doing another portscan, all is better. I am running bind, so I guess I want 'domain' running on 53.
Thanks :) Marc Wilson wrote: > > Port 111 is the portmapper (for NFS and other RPC services) and port 53 is > BIND (DNS). If you're not running NSF, you really don't need the portmapper > for much (although you can protect it with TCP Wrappers), and you don't need > BIND unless you're either providing name service for a domain, or running a > caching name server for your own use. > > ----- > Marc Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:02 AM > To: Debian > Subject: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53 > > I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've > been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd > cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was as > it should be except for sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53. I > couldn't find any packages with dpkg -l which contained any part of that > string. Plus, there is no whatis or man information. >