Re: 20001003: Can't Contact Portmapper Problem

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Unidata Support wrote:

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> >From: "Ken Waters" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: Can't Contact Portmapper Problem
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200010031806.e93I6Wb25056
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> Hello again,
> 
> Once again I am befuddled with the mysterious "FEEDME: Can't contact
> portmapper: RPC: Timed out" error.  What exactly does this error mean
> and what can I do to resolve the problem?
> 
> I scoured through your online archives and searched for portmapper.  I
> found several other instances where people were having this error in
> their log files, but I wasn't able to find what the fix is for it.

Ken,

Look at message http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3670.  Ask your
sysadmin if port 111 is open and if the portmapper is running on run-time
level 3 on the remote machine.  One could also test the remote machine if
it can contact your machine via ldmping. 

Robb...

> 
> We are running version 5.1.2 of LDM on a Redhat 6.2 Linux box.  I
> continue to supect a firewall problem but our network specialist says it
> couldn't be.
> 
> I hope you can help me. I have attached a copy of my ldmd.log file as
> well as the output from the "rpcinfo -p" command.   Thanks!
> 
> Ken
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> Oct 03 15:32:44 wwwldm rpc.ldmd[12020]: Starting Up (built: Sep  6 2000 
> 06:48:45) 
> Oct 03 15:32:45 wwwldm 192.168.2.12[12022]: run_requester: Starting Up: 
> 192.168.2.12 
> Oct 03 15:32:45 wwwldm 192.168.2.12[12022]: run_requester: 20001003143245.077 
> TS_ENDT {{AFOS,  ".*"}} 
> Oct 03 15:32:45 wwwldm pqact[12021]: Starting Up 
> Oct 03 15:32:47 wwwldm localhost[12030]: Connection from 
> localhost.localdomain 
> Oct 03 15:32:47 wwwldm localhost[12030]: Connection reset by peer 
> Oct 03 15:32:47 wwwldm localhost[12030]: Exiting 
> Oct 03 15:33:10 wwwldm 192.168.2.12[12022]: FEEDME(192.168.2.12): can't 
> contact portmapper: RPC: Timed out 
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>    program vers proto   port
>     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>     100021    1   udp   1024  nlockmgr
>     100021    3   udp   1024  nlockmgr
>     100021    1   tcp   1024  nlockmgr
>     100021    3   tcp   1024  nlockmgr
>     100024    1   udp    964  status
>     100024    1   tcp    966  status
>     300029    5   tcp    388  ldmd
>     300029    4   tcp    388  ldmd
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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