On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:21:13AM +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:02:34PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:23:28AM -0700, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > > > > > You run those service locally on each machine only. You don't make them > > > available to other hosts. > > > > Sorry if I'm being completely dense here, but aren't the ports still > > open, even if they are only serving localhost? > > The point is that it's made accessible only from localhost. Whether this is > by using a firewall to block connections from anyone else, using tcpwrappers > or that it only binds to the lo interface.
This last case (binding to lo): how would I go about doing that? Thanks, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
