Is rpcbind needed on a normally running internet system?

Eric Wagar eric at deadhookers.org
Wed Dec 1 23:31:39 UTC 2004


> I have a RH9 box as a webserver, and after running nmap on it, I see
> that rpcbind is running.  Do I need this?  What does it do?

Ok, I found my RH Network and SA book. So, no, since I am not running
anything needing a port to be mapped (nfs, etc.)

eric
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