Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:45:36AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote:
> Netstat reports that foreign address is *:*, and I indeed
> _can_ connect to it with telnet, altough if I send anything to
> it with the telnet, the connection gets closed. Further, there
> is only one wdm process running. Maybe I'll just trust my
> iptables :) But anyway it would be nice to know what is the
> purpose of this kind of behaviour, and how can it be turned
> off.
Okay, well that doesn't sound very good. I'm not sure why WDM would
want a TCP socket open on a random port, when a UNIX socket or even
pipes could probably meet the need for what it's doing without opening a
public port.
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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