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Kwoody wrote:
> 
> Did a netstat -a see that something is listening on port 6000...what
> might that be? Telnetted to it but didt get anything. Anyone?
> 
> thanks

Ports 6000-6063 are reserved forX Windows. It was your X server
listening for applications wanting to connect to it over the net.

Nadav