Bug 1388413 - rpcbind uses an undocumented UDP port
Summary: rpcbind uses an undocumented UDP port
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpcbind
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Yongcheng Yang
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-25 09:53 UTC by divya.n.gopi
Modified: 2017-04-08 15:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-08 15:47:29 UTC
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Description divya.n.gopi 2016-10-25 09:53:49 UTC
Description of problem:
rpcbind not only listens to the tcp port 111 and UDP port 111, but to an undocumented UDP port.

Steps to Reproduce:
Details of the netstat command run on my test machine shows the below output. Here 'rpcbind' has opened the port 993:

netstat -anp |grep rpc
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111                 0.0.0.0:
*                   LISTEN      4634/rpcbind
tcp        0      0 :::111                      :::
*                        LISTEN      4634/rpcbind
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:993                 0.0.0.0:
*                               4634/rpcbind
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111                 0.0.0.0:
*                               4634/rpcbind
udp        0      0 :::993                      :::
*                                    4634/rpcbind
udp        0      0 :::111                      :::
*                                    4634/rpcbind
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     17222
4634/rpcbind        /var/run/rpcbind.sock


Everytime I restart rpcbind , a new port under 1024 is opened.
Why is rpcbind opening an additional port under 1024 and what is the purpose of this port?

Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2017-04-08 15:47:29 UTC
(In reply to divya.n.gopi from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> rpcbind not only listens to the tcp port 111 and UDP port 111, but to an
> undocumented UDP port.
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 
> Everytime I restart rpcbind , a new port under 1024 is opened.
> Why is rpcbind opening an additional port under 1024 and what is the purpose
> of this port?

That port is used for remote calls...


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