From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 20:32:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1229716B1E9 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shiemstra@h2.com) Received: from hermes.h2web.com (mx1.h2web.com [67.132.72.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65A1543D5C for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:32:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shiemstra@h2.com) Received: (qmail 38067 invoked by uid 1011); 10 May 2006 16:32:12 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO hanky) (192.168.1.3) by hermes.h2web.com with SMTP; 10 May 2006 16:32:12 -0400 From: "Scott Hiemstra" To: Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:34:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <44624631.9000503@calarts.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Thread-Index: AcZ0bF6o3UBv8UTZTSaMOX6lrJOtUAABBnFg Message-Id: <20060510203213.65A1543D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: daemon to listen on localhost only? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 20:32:20 -0000 > 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