"Lucius Chiaraviglio" <luciusone@chapter.net> wrote in message
news:3f1e31df.14061639@news.charter.net

sunrpc (aka portmapper) running on port 111 is a part of every Linux distro
I'm familiar with, and is necessary for such things as NFS, NIS etc.

It should be turned off or otherwise limited in network availability for
security reasons.


tony

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