On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Rob Sansom wrote:
> Wow, I'm actually posting, and breaking my New Years resolution not to write
> email first thing in the morning...
>
> RPC Portmapper. Very bad to allow people to connect to this, since they can
> find out what sorts of RPC services you run on your host (if I'm correct).
Alas, blocking it does not really stop them from doing that, it just makes
it a wee bit more difficult (and it really isnot all that difficult, even
without portmapper access). Nonetheless, it should be blocked...
Brian Mitchell / brian @
saturn .
net
http://www.saturn.net/~brian/security/
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