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Re: Open ports & security



On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:28:51AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> But what about 111?  Something in my gut says that
> remote procedure call can't be all that good.

NIS and NFS need sunrpc (aka portmapper) running on the server, but you
should be able to shut it off if you're not using either of them.

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