Hi again,

On 23 Jan 2026 at 07:09:07, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:

> > The systemd unit recently introduced at least shrinks down the
> > permissions to the dynamic user permissions, so it actually reduces
> > the concern to "somebody that has localhost tcp access has access as
> > anonymous user", which is way better than "somebody that has localhost
> > tcp access has access as whatever user who happened to start festival."
> 
> Well, this is thanks to the "festival --server" rejecting connections
> from outside localhost.
> 
> If I enable the socket activation and *after* "festival --server" runs:
> festival is reachable from outside localhost. But it drops the
> connections. I see the clients reaching it via:
> 
> carles@pinux:~$ sudo journalctl -u festival -f
> 
> I'll check how to make festival binding only to localhost (I think that
> some options could be passed to "festival --server" but I don't know if
> this is possible...)

I think that this was a PEBKAC (bad testing).

When using the festival.socket, I cannot reach festival from outside
localhost.

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Carles Pina i Estany
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