From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
Subject: Must portmap listen on * in NFS clients?
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:48:44 -0500
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I have a question that will soon be relevant for Debian NFS packaging.

As far as NFS is concerned, need portmap listen on all interfaces when
the machine it's on is only an NFS *client*?  I know that servers'
portmaps must listen on * so clients can find mountd.  But, AFAICT,
clients need not have open portmaps.  Am I right in this?

PS: I should already know this.  But NFS protocol issues have always
    given me the screaming heebie jeebies.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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