On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Keith Packard wrote:
>Around 23 o'clock on Jul 23, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>
>> Here's a patch to allow multiple '-nolisten' options on the command
>> line. To disable both IPv4 and IPv6 transports, one needs to say:
>> 
>>       X -nolisten tcp -nolisten inet6 
>
>While supporting multiple -nolisten arguments is good, I suggest that the
>current '-nolisten tcp' should include both inet4 and inet6 tcp options; 
>most people use '-nolisten tcp' to avoid exposing an open port to the X 
>server to the network.
>
>       -nolisten inet4         don't listen for TCP/IPv4 connections
>       -nolisten inet6         don't listen for TCP/IPv6 connections
>       -nolisten tcp           don't listen for any TCP connections

Yes, the generic option should disable all TCP transport types.

David
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