Re: Probing mountd on another machine

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 01/27/04

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    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. 

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Simon Green
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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.
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