[PLUG] NFS timed out

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I believe that there are vulnerabilities related to NFS that allow an 
intruder to gain access to a remote system. You might want to consider 
using secure NFS via SSH tunnel for added security.

Tony
 
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:46 pm, you wrote:
> Rich Shepard's Log: StarDate 0417.1657:
> > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > > This is the same error I get on my systems at home, which implies
> > > to me that I have got things correctly configured on the server
> > > side. Any ideas on what's wrong on the client side?
> >
> >   When I had RPC problems here it almost always was resolved by
> > restarting the network on the uncooperative machine.
>
> Tried that, no help. Found out that if I shutdown the firewall on my
> laptop, NFS works.
>
> Now to figger out the best balance of services and protections.
>
> -bk

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Anthony Schlemmer
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