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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2006 16:34:26 -0400
From:      "Scott Hiemstra" <shiemstra@h2.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: daemon to listen on localhost only?
Message-ID:  <20060510203213.65A1543D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <44624631.9000503@calarts.edu>

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> Is there a way to tell a daemon to listen only to the 
> localhost without 
> using a firewall?

As others have stated, check the daemon you are trying to run but many can
also run via tcpserver (http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html).  Going
this route you can limit the listening IP to localhost or whatever.  I
personally swear by this route as it is a good/clean method of controling
services.

Scott






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