Re: Filter rules for RPC based services

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

On 14/09/2012, at 4:33 AM, Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:

> When writing (ipf) filter rules for a machine running RPC based services, 
> is there any sane way to allow incoming traffic to the relevant ports?

I suspect that you would have to do it the same way that ftp is supported by 
ipf and that is to write a proxy for rpcbind so that you can find out what 
ports are required on the fly.

Cheers,
Lloyd