From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 7:28:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11703.mail.yahoo.com (web11703.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9C9537B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:28:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020221152819.9837.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.140.253.2] by web11703.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:28:19 PST Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:28:19 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Erlin Subject: Re: securing open ports 515(printer) and 6000(X11)?? To: Manuel Hendel , FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <20020221144420.GJ35089@he0.easygolucky.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're running IPFW, you can simply add a rule to reset/drop traffic to those ports. I'm sure there are ways to configure them to listen the way you want as well, but IPFW provides a single solution to any listening port you don't want. --Tim --- Manuel Hendel wrote: > I got FreeBSD 4.5 on my desktop installed. Natural I > got X and printer > installed, I need it, but I don't want it listening > on all interfaces! > I just want to listen it on localhost! Is that > possible somehow? > > Thanks, > Manuel > > > -- > The strength of women is the facade of weakness, the > weakness of men is the > facade of strength. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message