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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: Re: NFSbug bug and httpd problems

Re: NFSbug bug and httpd problems

Oliver Friedrichs (icemanMBnet.MB.CA)
Fri, 17 Mar 1995 00:01:51 -0600 (CST) 

On Wed, 15 Mar 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:

> I have been using nfsbug to detect remotely mountable file systems in
> our network vulnerability tests, and some users have noticed that
> sometimes nfsbug claims that it failed to mount file systems, and yet
> the showmount command claims that all.net has those very systems
> mounted.  Could it be that there's a bug in nfsbug?

Perhaps because nfsbug isn't using a reserved port - and you have port 
checking enabled on the server?

- Oliver