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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!usenet From: "Alan E. Ross" <alan@popi.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How do you enable RPC on FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:19:19 -0800 Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX USA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <30FFD297.4A0B@popi.net> References: <4dnr41$di@jobe.shell.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mobil.convex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12813 comp.unix.bsd.misc:470 Chip, Do you have "localhost" configured? Your machine needs to have locahost both configured, and be able to do name resolution for it. Alan Ross Chip Little wrote: > 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