System administration note

[mdlbear]

If you want to put a firewall on an NIS (Sun "Yellow Pages") server, you have to start ypserv with an explicit port number -- otherwise it just picks one at random! What were they thinking? Has anybody hit Sun with a clue-by-four yet?

Comments

Re: rpc.portmap

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

Aye. There's a very appropriate quote here:

"The Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it."