On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:22:44PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote: > NFS is NORMALLY port 2049, but not necessarily. It's not fixed. > It can be any arbitrary port. When something wants to mount an > NFS exported filesystem, it asks the portmapper (port 111, I > think. Check /etc/services) for the port to connect to. The > portmapper then checks its list of registered RPC services and > sends back the port number to use.
I didn't know that. That explains some of the problems. The best way to block NFS is of course to not run it. :-) Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: [email protected] | Use PostgreSQL!
