On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Spencer Shepler wrote:

>
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Kevin Zupan wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me why, rpcbind not only binds to udp/111, but also
>> to some other random udp port above 32770.  I can find lots of
>> information about this be a vulnerability and this and that, but I
>> really cannot find any information as to the functional reason for
>> this.
>
> I don't see any evidence of this in the source for rpcbind.
> It will bind to all of the available transports but should
> be limited to port 111.

And obviously I didn't look closely enough given Casper's
response on opensolaris-discuss.

Spencer

_______________________________________________
networking-discuss mailing list
[email protected]

Reply via email to