Re: Pings...

[gil @ checkpoint . brm . co . il (Gil Shwed)]

Casper Dik <casper @
 fwi .
 uva .
 nl> wrote:
> Modern NIS/YP implementations will bind to ports < 1024, mainly
> to tell the portmapper ``root owns this service'', a fact which
> the portmapper uses to prevent mere mortals from starting their
> own ypserv.  BTW, ypserv is RPC/UDP and RPC/TCP. 
> 
Note that ypbind remains >1023, letting anybody fetch your NIS
databases.

-- Gil Shwed
-- CheckPoint Software Technologies