Re: Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread TeXitoi
"Jean-Francois" writes: > I just don't understand why the range tcp 6000:6010 shall be available from > localhost. To speak with X using tcp. If you launch X with the option "-nolisten tcp", you can block it. If you have "set skip on lo" in your pf.conf, every ports will be open for localhost,

Re: Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread Jean-Francois
I made a mistake, in fact I deny access by default even to those ports that are normally available from localhost. I did this because I see nothing listening to those ports, and gnome is running through sockets. I just don't understand why the range tcp 6000:6010 shall be available from localhost

Re: Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread TeXitoi
ropers writes: > I don't understand. Why are you not running a default deny setup? Maybe because this pf.conf is the default one. > On 29 August 2010 14:45, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One question, I run gnome on openbsd 4.7 and apparently there is > > no reason to keep the following

Re: Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread ropers
I don't understand. Why are you not running a default deny setup? On 29 August 2010 14:45, Jean-Francois wrote: > Hi, > > One question, I run gnome on openbsd 4.7 and apparently there is no reason to > keep the following rule since nothing listens to those ports on my machine. > > block in on ! l

Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, One question, I run gnome on openbsd 4.7 and apparently there is no reason to keep the following rule since nothing listens to those ports on my machine. block in on ! lo0 proto tcp to port 6000:6010 I verified with netstat that there is nothing listening to any of tcp ports in the range 6