[aclug-L] Re: Buffer overflow attempt??

[james l <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Root/Great Overall Dictator replies:
> Now that I think about it, I think I was seeing something like this back in
> March, before my systems got hacked. I just thought it was bad information,
> or chewed up headers or something like that. As a matter of fact, looking
> through my logs reveals a very similar pattern around the 22nd of April
> (that's as far back as my logs go).
> As a tangent to that, I'm seeing quite a few entries in my portsentry logs
> about attempts to access port 111, which is the sunrpc port, which I think
> is tied to portmapper. <dumbquestion> What is portmapper, and why would I
> want it running? </dumbquestion>
> 
> ja
> ???????????

rpc (portmapper) is what nfs uses for communtication. If you are using nfs,
you need it, if not you don't. (Theoritically something else could use rpc
but on redhat I haven't found any need unless I am running nfs)

James l
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