A TCP listener is a process that accepts socket connection requests and forks off dedicated sockets to complete the connections and allow communication to proceed. You can't have TCP/IP without one or more. The presence of listeners, by itself, has no bearing on how secure the computer is.
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > My Mac has the one that ends with 631. There are 9 others. All beginning > with tcp4 or tcp6. > I haven't found anywhere that talks about this stuff yet. > > Alvin Auerbach wrote: > >> Here's what happened; what does it mean? >> >> Macintosh:~ Alvin$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN >> tcp6 0 0 fe80::1%lo0.631 *.* LISTEN >> tcp4 0 0 *.3829 *.* LISTEN >> tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.631 *.* LISTEN >> tcp6 0 0 ::1.631 *.* LISTEN >> Macintosh:~ Alvin$ > > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
