Port 111 (rpcbind)

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Thu Aug 5 21:53:40 UTC 2021


On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 20:08:05 -0600
"@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:

> On 2021 Aug 04, at 19:39, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > sockstat -n4 | grep -w 111
> 
> Ah, so it is not a port, it's part of base and used by ntpdate.

	It shouldn't be, ntpdate is just a one shot NTP client which opens
a connection to port 123 on some NTP server but doesn't listen on anything.
Port 111 is for rpcbind which is used by NFS and pretty much nothing else
these days.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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