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ONC RPC (also known as Sun RPC) is a family of networking protocols for remote procedure calls over UDP and TCP

ONC RPC (Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call), classically known as Sun RPC, is a network protocol layer for remote procedure calls on top of UDP or TCP. It is used by NFS, among others.

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What are the .x files in /usr/include?

My /usr/include contains several files with the .x file extension, such as /usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.x. They seem like C sources (running file /usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.x results in C source, ASCII text), but they are not valid C (e.g. program and…
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NFSv4 Errors, But Not in NFSv3

I'm working on an NFS solution for RHEL6.5 clients (all VMs) with RHEL6.5 and RHEL7 hosts. Currently, the RHEL7 host with RHEL6.5 clients works fine. The trouble is with the RHEL6.5 host. These problems might be down to aspects of the server I can't…
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Where are NFS v4 logs under systemd?

My error is: mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting fileserver:/export/path/one My question is: where would the detailed log information be on the server (under systemd)? More information: I asked a similar question from the Ubuntu…
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rpc bind errors when disabling IPv6

I'm using the kernel command line parameter ipv6.disable=1 in my boot loader (systemd boot) to disable IPv6. However, with that option, I now get these errors in the journal after booting up. Jul 09 02:38:48 arch rpcbind[645]: cannot create socket…
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rpcbind is opening port 873 UDP but rpcinfo -p shows no program bound to that port

I'm looking at lsof -i output on several Linux servers in our environment and finding that rpcbind opens the usual port 111 in both TCP and UDP protocols, but also opens port 873 UDP for no apparent reason. This is raising security flags because…
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Could not mount NetApp volume through NFS: rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out

I am trying to mount one of NFS volume exported from NetApp storage but getting below error. 10.242.12.24 is my NFS server. I am trying to mount on Suse 11.4 which is my NFS client. mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'hard,addr=10.242.12.24' …
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Unable to mount nfs share when dns returns ipv6 link-local address?

On my Debian box I am unable to mount an nfs share on my NAS. The local DNS server returns a link-local address for the NAS (because I have set it that way to prevent doing any configuration changes later when for instance my IPv6 prefix changes.) #…
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Port open high for a few moments more often

I have a dns server running bind without iptables configuration. Running some scanners with nmap, I found that no root in some high moments ports are open but soon close, and stay in that loop. When I walk with root these ports do not appear at any…
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How can I get the manpage-like help information of a RPC service?

$ rpcinfo program version netid address service owner 100000 4 tcp6 ::.0.111 portmapper superuser 100000 3 tcp6 ::.0.111 portmapper superuser 100000 4 udp6…
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Does `rpcinfo` list the port number of a RPC service?

$ rpcinfo program version netid address service owner 100000 4 tcp6 ::.0.111 portmapper superuser 100000 3 tcp6 ::.0.111 portmapper superuser 100000 4 udp6…
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Which RPC implementation does rpcbind apply to?

As indicated in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call#Analogues, there are many implementations of RPC. Which RPC implementation does rpcbind apply to? I am using Lubuntu. Thanks.
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