Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:48:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg listening on the WAN? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206260747340.3398@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <jsacch$7pe$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <jsacch$7pe$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Xorg -nolisten tcp to disable at all to disable wan only use firewall On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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