Xorg listening on the WAN?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 06:58:25PM +0000, Walter Hurry escribió:

> $ 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?

$ man Xorg | col -b | fgrep -- -nolisten

HIH

	matthias
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