Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:22:57 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg listening on the WAN? Message-ID: <20120625192257.GA1464@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <jsacch$7pe$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <jsacch$7pe$1@dough.gmane.org>
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El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 06:58:25PM +0000, Walter Hurry escribió: > $ 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? $ man Xorg | col -b | fgrep -- -nolisten HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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