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From: chip@shell.portal.com (Chip Little)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: How do you enable RPC on FreeBSD?
Date: 19 Jan 1996 02:17:37 -0800
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I've got a configuration of BSD that seems to have RPC partially
disabled.  For instance, I can tell that RPC processes are running:

# rpcinfo -p
   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
		....

However, when I try to ping a process:

# rpcinfo -t `hostname` 100000 2
rpcinfo: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
program 100000 version 2 is not available

Does anyone have any idea about what part of the configuration process
or system initialization I might have missed?  It seems that the
portmapper should respond; I know it does on the Sun boxes that are
here.

Thanks for your help.

Chip