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SubjectRe: sunrpc port allocation and IANA reserved list
On 11/10/2009 02:26 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 12:37 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> On 11/10/2009 11:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 11:43 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>
>>>> Given that a userspace application can be stopped and restarted at any
>>>> time, and a sunrpc registration can happen at any time, what is the
>>>> expected mechanism to prevent the kernel from allocating a port for use
>>>> by sunrpc that reserved or well-known?
>>>>
>>>> Apparently Redhat and Debian have distro-specific ways of dealing with
>>>> this, but is there a standard solution? Should there be?
>>>>
>>>> The current setup seems suboptimal.
>>>
>>> I believe both RH and Debian are using the same implementation:
>>> <http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/portreserve/>.
>>
>> That helps with the startup case, but still leaves a possible hole if an
>> app using a fixed port number is restarted at runtime. During the
>> window where nobody is bound to the port, the kernel could randomly
>> assign it to someone else.
>
> Just use /proc/sys/sunrpc/{max,min}_resvport interface to restrict the
> range used to a safer one. That's what it is for...

What constitutes a "safer range"? IANA has ports assigned
intermittently all the way through the default RPC range. The largest
unassigned range is 922-988 (since 921 is used by lwresd). If someone
needs more than 66 ports, how are they supposed to handle it?

Chris


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