On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, you wrote: > Since the foreign address is 0.0.0.0, does that mean that these > ports are accessable by the world? Port 515 is the print > spooler, so it sounds bad that that should be world accessable. You'd better believe it. And if you want it to get worse, open an X Window session and watch X pop up on port 6000 and xfs on port 2046 I think. This is why EVERYONE running a linux box (at home or otherwise) needs to have a firewall installed of some sort. One solution is tcpserver as a replacement for inet super server because it supports binding to a specific interface or address. It is limited in the fact that it only handles TCP protocols. As far as X and xfs go ... pass the -nolisten tcp to your startx script as a server arg and X will no longer listen on the network for connections. xfs will take -udpPort 0 to to turn off network requests, but I still haven't found a good place in prefdm or the like to pass that arg automatically. If anyone has any tips please post them. -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com ____________________________ A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead
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