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Re: Disabling rpcbind/portmapper Nov 05 2003 06:28PM
Gregory Hicks (ghicks cadence com)

> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:14:27 +0000
> From: António Vasconcelos <vasco (at) all-2-it (dot) com [email concealed]>
>
> Casper Dik wrote:
>
> > The risk of rpcbind is fairly minimal; though I supposed we should
> >
> >put in some work to make it e.g., "localhost only".
> >
>
> I didn't know that such thing could be done, at least in Sol 8 or 9.
> Is there any way to restrict any server only to one interface ? Maybe
> with some kind of iptables or such ????
>

The only way *I've* seen this done is with a firewall blocking all
machines except the one you WANT the traffic to go to...

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

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