111 is the portmapper/rpcbind port. Since LDM runs by means of RPC, I
don't think it's possible to turn off RPC, though the authors of LDM may
know better.
Bret Whissel
System Administrator
Department of Meteorology
Florida State University
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:59 -0500, Peter Laws wrote:
> Peter Laws wrote:
> > Having, for better or worse, moved well past the world of NIS and RPC (and
> > CSH :-), I want to disable RPC on our LDM servers. Port 388 seems to work
> > well enough.
> >
> > Is it as simple as reregistering the program? Should I be setting
> > something in a config file somewhere?
>
> And a related question ... what would cause LDM to make a request via
> 111/tcp versus 388/tcp? Can that be controlled in the config?
>
>
