portmap only listening on 127.0.0.1

[Mark Cooke]

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:01:32PM -0600, rellik wrote:
>  I am trying to set up NFs and an having a problem with portmap.  after
>  starting it I can connect to it with 'telnet 127.0.0.1 111' but I get a
>  "connection refused" when I 'telnet <my_local_IP> 111'.

edit the following file:

/etc/default/portmap and eith change the interface or comment out the
line totally and restart portmap.

This is because it's only listening on the loopback interface for
security reasons.


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