RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

Chuck Wolber chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Mon Aug 25 18:03:21 UTC 2003


> > 111/tcp    open        sunrpc
> > 111/udp    open        sunrpc
> 
> both are necessary for NFS mounts to work, since these requests go
> through portmap.

Yes, that is true, but they shouldn't be open at all until the user
configures them to be open. IIRC, the installer doesn't set up nfs mounts.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that nfs in particular should be
deliberately hard to setup for newbs.

-Chuck


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