Subject: Re: being scanned.....
To: None <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@oreilly.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/06/1999 15:06:02
Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl (Reinoud Koornstra) writes:
>/etc/rc.conf i set portmap=NO
>But now i get messages all the time like this:

>mipam inetd[184]: pmap_set: 100002 3 17 65532: No message of desired type

That's becuase you haven't commented out the RPC based services in inetd.conf.
Inetd needs to register them with the portmapper.

Another option would be to use tcp wrappers to control access to portmap.

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Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

	Anything that can be done in O(N) can be done in O(N^2).
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