Re: help!?!? portmap , what is it used for ?
Brent Bailey skrev: forgive me for posting this twice...i forgot what email address is allowd on this list...anywho.. Well it's your lucky day! Im running a freebsd 4.10 and the other morning i noticed this in my ps -ax output. 13560 ?? Is 0:00.00 portmap 218.49.183.17 Now ive denied portmap from /etc/hosts.allow ...however accrding to the above ps listing ...this IP managed to make a connection to portmap .. what portmap used for ?? and does this mean the box has been compromised ? thank you in advance for any help man portmap PORTMAP(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual PORTMAP(8) NAME portmap -- RPC program,version to DARPA port mapper SYNOPSIS portmap [-d] [-v] [-h bindip] DESCRIPTION Portmap is a server that converts RPC program numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help !?!? portmap , what is it used for ?
Im running a freebsd 4.10 and the other morning i noticed this in my ps -ax output. 13560 ?? Is 0:00.00 portmap 218.49.183.17 Now ive denied portmap from /etc/hosts.allow ...however accrding to the above ps listing ...this IP managed to make a connection to portmap .. what portmap used for ?? and does this mean the box has been compromised ? thank you in advance for any help -- Brent Bailey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help!?!? portmap , what is it used for ?
forgive me for posting this twice...i forgot what email address is allowd on this list...anywho.. Im running a freebsd 4.10 and the other morning i noticed this in my ps -ax output. 13560 ?? Is 0:00.00 portmap 218.49.183.17 Now ive denied portmap from /etc/hosts.allow ...however accrding to the above ps listing ...this IP managed to make a connection to portmap .. what portmap used for ?? and does this mean the box has been compromised ? thank you in advance for any help -- Brent Bailey -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Engineer, Webmaster, President http://www.bmyster.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 207-247-8330 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
