rpcinfo -p doesn't work

ubergoonz ubergoonz at gmail.com
Tue May 8 14:33:55 UTC 2007


is portmap running?


On 5/8/07, Dave Martini 1 <martini1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>
> I don't even have the firewall turned on on the client so how could it
> be the client having the problem?
>
> client# service iptables status
> Firewall is stopped.
>
> I get this error
>
> client# rpcinfo -p server
> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
>
> What does that error mean?
>
>
> client# iptables -nL
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Ezra Taylor wrote:
> > As root run iptables -nL.  I also don't remember the port numbers.
> >
> > Ezra
> >
> > On 5/4/07, Dave Martini 1 <martini1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have an RHEL 4 client when I do rpcinfo -p hostA it doesn't show any
> >> output.
> >> Is this a problem with the RHEL client or the hostA machine? I can do
> >> rpcinfo -p hostA from other
> >> clients and it works but not from my RHEL4 client.
> >>
> >> How do I check iptables to see if it's being blocked? How do I check it
> >> the firewall is on? Is there a gui
> >> to check?
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