rpc.mountd

The mount protocol is a component of the NFS protocol. It's job is to connect to the NFS server, lookup filenames, and validate the user has rights to those files. It returns a file handle that can then be used by the NFS in order to read/write those files.

In late 1998 and early 1999, widespread scans of the Internet for port 635 occurred. These scans were hunting for Linux machines that had a bug in their mount daemons that would allow an intruder to break in.

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