From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 11:46:32 EST
It's possible that one of your network adapters is in your AIX box's
boot-list, so at boot-time it's probing the network for a boot-server.
-- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe Ltd AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. > -----Original Message----- > From: Hambleton, John S. [mailto:jhamblet@NMU.EDU] > Sent: 27 January 2004 16:11 > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU > Subject: Probing mountd on another machine > > > Hello Folks: > > I was wondering if anybody can tell me what's going on with > the following: > I have an AIX box and Linux box on the same network switch. > The AIX box > has been around awhile and the Linux box is fairly new. After > a reboot of > the AIX box, I notice messages in my Linux box logs of the nature: > portmap[31218]: connect from xxx.xxx.xxx.x to callit(mountd): > request from > unauthorized host > Where xxx.xxx.xxx.x is my AIX box. Looks like that upon bootup of my > AIX box, a probe is taking place of other machines in the vicinity. > > I am wondering what's causing such a probe of other machines and how I > might configure whatever is doing it, to stop doing it.
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