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rpcinfo(8)
NAME
  rpcinfo - report remote procedure call (RPC) information

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p	[host]

  /usr/sbin/rpcinfo [-n portnum] -u  host program-number [version-number]

  /usr/sbin/rpcinfo [-n portnum] -t  host program-number [version-number]

  /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -b	program-number version-number

  /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -d	program-number version-number

OPTIONS
  -b  Makes an RPC broadcast to procedure 0 of the specified program and
      version using UDP and report all hosts that respond.

  -d  Deletes registration for the RPC service of the specified program and
      version. This option can be executed only by the superuser.

  -n portnum
      Uses portnum as the port number for the -t and -u options instead of
      the port number given by the portmapper.

  -p  Probes the portmapper portmap(8), running on host, and print a list of
      all registered RPC programs. If host is not specified, rpcinfo defaults
      to the value returned by either hostname(1) or gethostname(2).

  -u  Makes an RPC call to procedure 0 of program-number using the user
      datagram protocol (UDP), and report whether a response was received.

  -t  Makes an RPC call to procedure 0 of program-number using the
      transmission control protocol (TCP), and report whether a response was
      received.

DESCRIPTION
  The rpcinfo command makes a remote procedure call (RPC) call to an RPC
  server and displays its findings based on the specified options.  The
  program-number argument can be either a name or a number.  If a version is
  specified, rpcinfo attempts to call that version of the specified program.
  Otherwise, rpcinfo attempts to find all the registered version numbers for
  the specified program by calling version 0. If version 0 exists, rpcinfo
  attempts to obtain this information by calling an extremely high version
  number. The rpcinfo command then attempts to call each registered version.

EXAMPLES
   1.  To show all of the RPC services registered on the local machine, use:
	    # rpcinfo -p

   2.  To ping the mountd service registered on the machine named klaxon,
       use:
	    # rpcinfo -u klaxon mountd

   3.  To show all machines on the local network that are running the ypserv
       daemon, use:
	    # rpcinfo -b ypserv 'version' | uniq

       where 'version' is the current NIS version obtained from the results
       of the -p option.

   4.  To delete the registration for version 1 of the ypbind daemon, use:
	    # rpcinfo -d walld 1

FILES
  /etc/rpc
      Names for RPC program numbers

SEE ALSO
  Commands: hostname(1), portmap(8)

  Networking: tcp(7), udp(7)

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