Xorg listening on the WAN?

[Wojciech Puchar]

Xorg -nolisten tcp to disable at all

to disable wan only use firewall

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote:

> FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
>
> I think Xorg is listening on external addresses:
>
> $ sockstat -46 |grep Xorg
> root     Xorg       1573  1  tcp6   *:6000                *:*
> root     Xorg       1573  3  tcp4   *:6000                *:*
> $ netstat -a|grep x11
> tcp4       0      0 *.x11                  *.*                    LISTEN
> tcp6       0      0 *.x11                  *.*                    LISTEN
>
> I'm new to FreeBSD, but if I interpret this correctly, x11 is listening
> for connections on port 6000 for connections from any IPv4 or IPv6
> address.
>
> I don't think I'm in any immediate danger, as I am behind a router which
> will block incoming connection attempts, which (virtually) all seem to be
> on the http port (80) anyway.
>
> But it would give me a warm fuzzy feeling to stop x11 listening
> externally at all - I don't think I need it. How can I go about that
> please?
>
> In case it makes a difference, I am using XDM with standard LXDE. I do
> not use startx to initiate my sessions.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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