Re: Accepting external sendmail on 2.0.2

From: Frederick Bruckman (fredb_at_immanent.net)
Date: 07/07/05

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    In article <dae6mt$6lj$1@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>,
            Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> writes:
    >
    > Is there a reason X11 listens to external interfaces by default when
    > X is running? I have closed it:
    >
    > $ cat .xserverrc
    > #!/bin/sh
    >
    > PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin
    > exec X :0 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
    >
    > and see no differences (telnet daemon is closed by default, and ssh
    > does not really require these 6000+x ports opened). Is it reasonable
    > asking these ports to be closed by default?

    Then what would "-nolisten" do? ;-)

    Observe that the usual way of starting the Xserver, via xdm's
    "Xservers" file, does "-nolisten tcp" by default. 

    -- 
Frederick
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