mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us said:
> I assume portmap isn't required, simply because I'm running without it
> at home. 

But then you must make sure all the rpc services are commented out
in /etc/inetd.conf. If you don't, inetd will get huge timeouts when it tries
to register these, leading to DOS for some time as you have seen.

best regards
Matthias