GNOME2 - avahi daemons and various ports.

[ian ivy]

Hi, a couple days ago I decided to test GNOME2,
because I have one stand-alone machine with
FreeBSD 8.2 for testing various things. Lite* version
was installed from the 8 Stable branch. My questions is:

A) do I need enable avahi daemon to properly
run GNOME2? The same question goes for avahi
mDNS daemon

B) it is normal that some services (?) are listening
on various ports?

Couple examples (skip some info such as FD, PID etc.);


# sockstat -46

ian    gnome-sess   tcp6   *:30226     *:*  ===> **
ian    gnome-sess   tcp4   *:25308     *:*
avahi   avahi-daem  udp4   *:5353    *:*
avahi   avahi-daem  udp4   *:31702  *:*

# sockstat -4l

ian  gnome-sess   tcp4   *:25308       *:*
avahi   avahi-daem  udp4  *:5353     *:*
avahi   avahi-daem  udp4  *:31702   *:*

# netstat -an |grep LISTEN

tcp4   0     0 *.44164      *.*            LISTEN
tcp6   0     0 *.56629      *.*            LISTEN


It is normal behaviour? If I can close/disable these ports,
how do this?

Best regards! Ian.

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* gnome2-lite-2.32.1
** - I do not use IPv6. It is normal (tcp6)?