What is Portmap used for and can it be disabled completely?

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Pavel2017-05-10 08:46:53

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Pavel, 2017-05-10 08:46:53

Hello. I can not find what portmap is used for besides NFS. The hoster sent a letter that DDOS attacks are being carried out through the portmapper and my server is infected. I don't use NFS. Can I completely disable portmap and what else might it affect? VPS, CentOS, we host regular sites.

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mikes, 2017-05-10
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Just drop this port from the outside using iptables and everything will be fine.