Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:58:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Xorg listening on the WAN? Message-ID: <jsacch$7pe$1@dough.gmane.org>
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FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I think Xorg is listening on external addresses: $ sockstat -46 |grep Xorg root Xorg 1573 1 tcp6 *:6000 *:* root Xorg 1573 3 tcp4 *:6000 *:* $ netstat -a|grep x11 tcp4 0 0 *.x11 *.* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.x11 *.* LISTEN I'm new to FreeBSD, but if I interpret this correctly, x11 is listening for connections on port 6000 for connections from any IPv4 or IPv6 address. I don't think I'm in any immediate danger, as I am behind a router which will block incoming connection attempts, which (virtually) all seem to be on the http port (80) anyway. But it would give me a warm fuzzy feeling to stop x11 listening externally at all - I don't think I need it. How can I go about that please? In case it makes a difference, I am using XDM with standard LXDE. I do not use startx to initiate my sessions. Thanks.
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