[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Security question

[Mike Rylander]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Robert <glibrarysystem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I was wondering how important port 111 is to have listening? I know that
> it is linked to portmapper which has some security vulnerabilities and was
> wondering if it was blocked if I could connect to the server or not? Is it
> used to connect the staff client to the server by assigning ports for the
> connections? I'm assuming that is what it is used for. I would try to block
> it myself but there is a lot of testing going on with our Evergreen serrver
> right now and I don't want to kick everyone off of it.

Evergreen itself doesn't use sunrpc, but you may have other local
services, such as NFS or yp, that do.

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