Tony Johnson stated the following:
>
> It'd be a good idea to turn portmapper off if U are not using nfs , and if
> you are , setup a firewall so they cannot connect to portmapper which is a
> service commonly attacked.
I use nfs. I also tried the following:
portmap: 192.168.0. : ALLOW
portmap: ALL :DENY
And, the following warning occurred:
warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 3: portmap: service possibly not
wrapped
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Burke, Thomas G. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > It means that someon tried to connect to your dump service, but your
> > machine
> > ignored them. Dump gives info about your machine, I believe.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: SoloCDM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > > 1) What does the following entry into /var/log/messages mean? 2)
> > > How can I stop future connections?
> > >
> > > portmap[29706]: connect from 202.156.38.254 to dump(): request from
> > > unauthorized host
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