In the last episode (Jun 16), Brian Towles said: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 10:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Im running a 4.8 Release box as a NIS client and for every process > > that either logs in or changes running as user a Listening UDP port > > is created. > > > > Im putting some sample output from ps sockstat and lsof to show > > what I mean. The problem is these UDP ports are listening ports > > bound to all interfaces. > > > > It appears to be releated to NIS because when i uncomment the > > +::::(etc) from the passwd and group files it goes away for any > > newly started processes. I dont even have to turn off ypbind. > > > > Ive tried to put ypbind in secure mode and well as non broadcast > > mode and the same results happen. > > > > Any ideas as to what this is? More importantly, any idea of how to > > get rid of it? > > This seems to happen in 4.8 Stable as well as Release.. > Any clues? > > Im leaning towards someting in PAM but dont quite know what.
This is how NIS client access works. The first NIS lookup creates a UDP socket which is used for the lifetime of the process to talk to the NIS server. They're not listening sockets. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"