==== Original Question ====
What is the portmapper really for ?
Can anyone tell me if the portmapper is required for any of the "stock"
servers such as telnet, ftp, Sun openwindoze.
I would kinda like to get rid of the portmapper on a machine that is
not necessarily going to run as a bastion host, but am not too clear on
what servers/clients need to make RPC requests of the portmapper.
I have read the docs and man pages, but I am still a bit fuzzy about
what servers would absolutely find it necessary to register with the
portmapper.
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Basically the answer to this question can be had by doing a "rpcinfo -p".
any services that user portmapper will show up.
thanks to:
"Doug Hughes" <doug@Eng.Auburn.EDU>
doug@goodall.goodall.com
Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@cchtor.ca.cch.com>
sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au (Colin Campbell)
matt@uts.EDU.AU (Jas (Matthew K))
Tim Newsham <newsham@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com>
Icarus Sparry <I.Sparry@ss1.bath.ac.uk>
Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
Steve Simmons <scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@cchtor.ca.cch.com>
dorian@oxygen.house.gov (Dorian Deane)
rwolf@dciem.dnd.ca (Robert Wolf)
Brent Chapman <brent@GreatCircle.COM>
Shakeel Rao <rao@waterloo.hp.com>
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@bingy.acs.uci.edu>
perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
Jason Haar <Jason_Haar@chineham.euro.csg.mot.com>
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
ian@sq.com
rob@abs.ascom.ch (Robert Davies)
Graeme Wood <jaw@ucs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
pamela@Legato.COM (Pamela Pledger)
barmar@netcom.com (Barry Margolin)
Wed Sep 7 05:19:41 EDT 1994
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