daemon to listen on localhost only?

[Sean Murphy]

the ftp daemon that is started with inetd it is the ftp that comes with 
the freebsd system 5.4.

Thanks

Charles Swiger wrote:
> On May 10, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
>> Is there a way to tell a daemon to listen only to the localhost 
>> without using a firewall?
> 
> If the daemon has an option to listen on a specific IP address, yes; 
> otherwise, no.
> 
> ---Chuck
>