"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:14:36PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many > > machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the > > error makes me believe more) that X uses unix sockets to communicate > > making it (as far as running X on a local machine) immune to ipchains > > rules. > > So would it make use of TCP sockets for remote communication? As in > running a program remotely and directing the display to your local X server?
remote is different, remote would use TCP port 6000 (or whichever display your running) i blocked 6000 mainly because of the well known XFree "DOS". it would prevent any apps from connecting from remote, but local apps had no problem..for those that i needed remote apps from i just added a rule to allow them in. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]