On 2/6/2018 12:34 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
mountd can and should use a dynamic port assignment, IMO.
It doesn't have to use 20048.
Speaking of 20048, does anyone know why Nico made this assignment?
Apart from making it well-known for firewalls, what system(s)
actually required it? I don't recall it ever being discussed.
Using it is certainly not required, since portmap resolves it.
https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt
++ mountd 20048 tcp NFS mount protocol
[Nicolas_Williams] [Nicolas_Williams]
2010-08-09
++ mountd 20048 udp NFS mount protocol
[Nicolas_Williams] [Nicolas_Williams]
2010-08-09
Tom.
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