On Aug 15, 2007, at 21:11, Ezra Peisach via RT wrote:
> In Fedora 7 - portmap has been replaced with rpcbind.  They are using
> the tirpc libraries.
>
> rpcbind will by default reject set & unset requests unless the client
> uses a local socket in /var/run/rpcbind.sock.

I think the Mac OS X portmapper, as started from launchd, also  
expects this behavior.  It will accept registrations via loopback  
once launched, but I don't think attempts to register via loopback  
will cause launchd to start it.

> I will investigate....

Thanks.

Ken