From: Hambleton, John S. (jhamblet@NMU.EDU)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 15:20:47 EST
At 05:46 PM 1/27/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>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.
I bet that's it!
Thanks Simon!
JH
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> > -----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.
+ John S. "Dilbert" Hambleton
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+ Northern Michigan University
+ Marquette Michigan 49855
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