Re: portmapper / rpcbind installed by default

2013-10-28 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > And I would be surprised if my list were even close to the same list > as other people. And there is the problem with that statement The statement comes from the last century when UNIX systems were more common than Linux ones and UNIX admins had firm ideas as to what belonged

Re: portmapper / rpcbind installed by default (was: sudo and UNIXes)

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Standard consists of packages that you "would be surprised not to find > > on a UNIX system". > > But the portmapper is very closely associated with Sun RPC. If I have > not installed anything in that family the

portmapper / rpcbind installed by default (was: sudo and UNIXes)

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
be surprised if my list were even close to the same list as other people. And there is the problem with that statement. :-) But the portmapper is very closely associated with Sun RPC. If I have not installed anything in that family then I would not expect to find the portmapper installed. Bu

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: > On 21 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> > [snip] > Monique, I really am grateful to you for supplying this information; > exactly what I was looking for. I've adopted your suggested format for > /etc/hosts. [snip] You're welcome =) Hope it's workin

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > [snip] Monique, I really am grateful to you for supplying this information; exactly what I was looking for. I've adopted your suggested format for /etc/hosts. > > The lan IP address in the router is 192.168.0.20, which is why I had it > > in /etc/hosts.

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: > On 20 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: >> > >> > My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: >> > (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain >> > name resolves to

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:28AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > If you think I've got myself into a right muddle with this business, > > you're correct. Not a case of failing to rtfm, rather of too much rtfm > > (or the wrong fm, perhaps). > > I think

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:28AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > If you think I've got myself into a right muddle with this business, > you're correct. Not a case of failing to rtfm, rather of too much rtfm > (or the wrong fm, perhaps). I think a good book or other guide on IP networking wouldn

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: > > > > My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: > > (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain > > name resolves to and also the ip on my router. I don't know whic

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
I am confused. Can you post a simple ASCII draw of your network? Does the firewall contain log rules? Which firewall is it? -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we e

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: > > My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: > (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain > name resolves to and also the ip on my router. I don't know which, if > either, I need.) > > cut---

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2004, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:48:55AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > which I seem to remember, from a previous abortive attempt to set up > > plip, was the way to go, but no luck. I also tried putting in the IP > > addresses from the router; I could then pin

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:48:55AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > which I seem to remember, from a previous abortive attempt to set up > plip, was the way to go, but no luck. I also tried putting in the IP > addresses from the router; I could then ping one of them but not telnet > to it. >

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
rt 22: Connection refused." > > > > > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for > > > ssh? > > > > I don't know about this one, but I don't think so? > > > > > Also, what is the hostname I have to supply? The FQ

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > > > I ha

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > [snip] > This is just the hosts file for one of the machines ... > > What are you intending to accomplish with the acampbell.org.uk and > accampbell.uklinux.net entries? > > Each entry after the IP address on a line should be an identifier for > this

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Anthony Campbell penned: > > I am indeed grateful to everyone for help with this. Following > suggestions received so far I've tried (for this computer) setting my > hostname to arcadia.acampbell.org.uk and putting the following in > /etc/hosts: > >>---cut- > 127.

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Jacob S. wrote: > [snip] > In your case, you want hostname -f to resolve to > arcadia.acampbell.org.uk and mimosas.acampbell.org.uk. (Then, of course, > you still have to have dns setup to point to the appropriate IP for each > of those machines or you won't be able to ssh to th

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:31:00 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Jacob S. penned: > > > > There is something called "round-robin dns", among other things, for > > the purpose of having multiple machines answer queries for the same > > domain name. This is used for

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Jacob S. penned: > > There is something called "round-robin dns", among other things, for > the purpose of having multiple machines answer queries for the same > domain name. This is used for domains where web and e-mail traffic is > heavy enough that one server can't handle the load

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread David Clymer
ould be expected. > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? > sshd doesnt require portmapper > Also, what is the hostname I have to supply? The FQDN seems to be > acampbell.org.uk but this is the same for both computers, which doesn't > seem t

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:36:03 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > > On 18 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > >> > Also, what is the hostname I have to supply? The FQDN seems to be > >> > aca

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Jeff D
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Anthony Campbell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: [sshd does not accept connections] Thanks for this reply. I'm getting "connection refused" on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at on

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > On 18 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: >> > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: >> > >> >"connect to host port 22: Connection refused."

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Lou Losee penned: >> > >> Thanks for this reply. I'm getting "connection refused" on port 22. I >> don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place >> at one time though not now.) >> My understanding of Bastille is that it's not a service per se; it's an appli

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Anthony Campbell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > [sshd does not accept connections] > > Thanks for this reply. I'm getting "connection refused" on port 22. I > > don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place > > at one

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > > > I have portmapper turned off for securit

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Anthony Campbell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [sshd does not accept connections] > Thanks for this reply. I'm getting "connection refused" on port 22. I > don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place > at one time though not now.) Bastille asks you if you want to

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Lou Losee
get: > > > > > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > > > > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for > > > ssh? > > > > In my /etc/hosts.allow file I have the line "sshd: ALL". I don

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for > ssh? I don't know about t

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:25:08 + > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > &g

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Anthony Campbell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for > ssh? sshd does not po

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:25:08 + Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: > > "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." > > I have portmapper turned off for security, but is

SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: "connect to host port 22: Connection refused." I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? Also, what is the hostname I have to supply? The FQDN seems to be acampbell.org.uk but t

Re: Portmapper Problem (SOLVED)

2001-07-04 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote: > --- "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote: > > > > > Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > > > I think you mean /etc/hosts > > Exactly. Sorry fo

Re: Portmapper Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Debian GNU
--- "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote: > > > Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > I think you mean /etc/hosts Exactly. Sorry for the slip. Deb > > Yours Tony. > > /* > * "The signif

Re: Portmapper Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Debian GNU wrote: > Edit /etc/resolv.conf and add entry > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain I think you mean /etc/hosts Yours Tony. /* * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the * same level of thinking we were at when we created them." * --Albert

Re: Portmapper Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Debian GNU
regarding the PAM modules. > > The bug is fixed but the RPC portmapper doesnt come > up since this. > I cannot enable any network services no longer. > > Error message: > RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 > Protmap: server localhost not responding, timed out > > Can anyb

Portmapper Problem

2001-06-29 Thread Guenter Millahn
G'day On my sid/i386 box I have a problem with the portmap daemon since the critical bug regarding the PAM modules. The bug is fixed but the RPC portmapper doesnt come up since this. I cannot enable any network services no longer. Error message: RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 Protmap: s

Re: can't connect to portmapper from remote host

2001-05-11 Thread haek
130.241.119.140 41.958 ms 51.164 ms 43.479 ms > snip--- > > But still no success with rpcinfo: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rpcinfo -p 130.241.119.140 > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host > > > Any

Re: can't connect to portmapper from remote host

2001-05-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
fo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rpcinfo -p 130.241.119.140 rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host Any other hints? Hans

Re: can't connect to portmapper from remote host

2001-05-07 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello again debian-user! > > As I was trying to set up NFS on a debian-potato-box at work ("agda" at > 130.241.119.140) I found out that the remote host, that was to be the NFS > client 194.236.111.14, could not connect to the portmapper

can't connect to portmapper from remote host

2001-05-07 Thread haek
Hello again debian-user! As I was trying to set up NFS on a debian-potato-box at work ("agda" at 130.241.119.140) I found out that the remote host, that was to be the NFS client 194.236.111.14, could not connect to the portmapper on the server. The error message recieved was "N

Re: Re: potato->woody ==portmapper problems

2001-01-13 Thread Andreas Boman
It seems portmapper is part of base/netbase. wich is installed. midgaard:~# apt-get install portmapper Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package portmapper midgaard:~# apt-get install netbase Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

potato->woody ==portmapper problems

2001-01-13 Thread Andreas Boman
Hello people, I just upgraded my system to woody, and everything seems to run fine exept I can't get fam (file alteration manager) to work now. I get the following error: "Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused fam[10940]: can't register

Re: Removing portmapper, Re: firewalling

2000-11-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
ve not found these in inetd.conf and I > > do not know how to turn these off. I have already tried removing sunrpc.o > > from the modules, but the computer would not do that. What is this port > > used for? > > To turn off portmapper (111) in potato (where it's not a

Removing portmapper, Re: firewalling

2000-11-13 Thread David Wright
o > from the modules, but the computer would not do that. What is this port > used for? To turn off portmapper (111) in potato (where it's not a separate package), you could try: # /etc/init.d/portmap stop # mv -i /etc/init.d/portmap /etc/init.d/portmap-hidden (or remove its execute p

Re: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running? Date: Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:18:41AM -0800 In reply to:Marc Wilson Quoting Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Explain to me again how dpkg is going to tell me what package a binary > that's not installed on th

RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-09 Thread Marc Wilson
/www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: Wayne Topa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: inetd startup warns portmapper not running? Subject: RE: inetd startup warns po

inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-09 Thread Neil Darlow
A long time ago, in a galaxy far... far away, Neil Darlow wrote: > My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running > during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. Further investigation shows that most of the time rpcinfo returns program 10 not availab

Re: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running? Date: Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:52:11PM -0800 In reply to:Marc Wilson Quoting Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here's a question for you... which package owns /usr/bin/rcpinfo on your > box? A Woody install of m

RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-08 Thread Marc Wilson
at it gets installed. You will get the message if the binary isn't there as well as when the portmapper is actually dead. I've been *about* to report it as a bug for days but keep getting sidetracked. It's no problem on my box... I don't have any RPC services anyway. :) The

inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-08 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. I've checked that portmap is indeed running and I've even manually executed the logic that leads to this message. After boot it doesn't match the failin

Re: portmapper

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 01:40:57PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > The security consultant here would like me not to run the RPC > portmapper. I suppose this is a known security issue, and I'm not > actually using the services that depend on it. > It seems to be started in /etc/i

portmapper

1999-09-13 Thread Jim McCloskey
The security consultant here would like me not to run the RPC portmapper. I suppose this is a known security issue, and I'm not actually using the services that depend on it. It seems to be started in /etc/initd/netbase, but looking at that script, it's not obvious to me what the b

NIS requests overwhelm portmapper

1999-06-24 Thread Max
I am having a rather strange problem. It seems that any sort of NIS request (ypcat, yppoll, ypmatch, etc.) starts an intense round of ypserv activity (as shown by top), which is then followed by the following error: chinook:/etc/init.d# rpcinfo -p localhost rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper

Portmapper errors

1997-10-15 Thread Darin Johnson
I get the following messages in syslog, right after the ifconfigs: Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111 Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued! Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) (repeat twice

Re: portmapper problems

1997-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
I bet your problem is that one of that package that you installed killed your /etc/inetd.conf file. At least that's what happened to me last week. I never did figure out who did it. Check to see if it's there. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: portmapper problems

1997-04-15 Thread ioannis
Portmapper is usefull (and not essential) only for rpc apps. Ftp and telnet are not rpc programs and do not interact with portmapper. Check your ip connectivety, can you ping the other site? If no, check the network interface and route tables for both machines, then inspect the cable, io

Re: portmapper problems

1997-04-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i am replying to my own message but i finally found out what the problem is. /etc/inetd.conf got wiped out, probably because of the upgrade to either netbase 2.11 or 2.12. i'll check to see which one is the culprit and i will file it as a bug against it (2.12 that is, 2.11 seems to have been obsole

portmapper problems

1997-04-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i just realized that i cannot telnet/ftp into my machine although i can go out with no problems. i've checked to make sure the portmapper and inetd are running (they are). at the time i realized this is happening i was running netbase 2.12-1 but in the mean time i downgraded to 2.10-1 hoping

rpc portmapper dies ...

1997-03-11 Thread Marcia Takagui
Hello all, Now that I'm using Debian 1.2.x I'm having a problem that never showed up in Debian 1.1.x -- rpc portmapper dies very very frequently, and I have to reboot the system since I cannot connect to any host and cannot open any new window... "rpcinfo -p" says: &qu