Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:52:42 +0200 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: ian ivy <sidetripping@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME2 - avahi daemons and various ports. Message-ID: <1318852362.48910.13.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <CAASvXNtx41nvWLOZaH9Or09syMEHhUvKO04LPuSvC3FrdxwZQg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAASvXNtx41nvWLOZaH9Or09syMEHhUvKO04LPuSvC3FrdxwZQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 12:47 +0200, ian ivy wrote: > Hi, a couple days ago I decided to test GNOME2, > because I have one stand-alone machine with > FreeBSD 8.2 for testing various things. Lite* version > was installed from the 8 Stable branch. My questions is: > > A) do I need enable avahi daemon to properly > run GNOME2? The same question goes for avahi > mDNS daemon No, not at all. Only thing you need to be running is dbus, and optionally HAL for a few additional features (CD insertion autodetection and such), but that's somewhat controversial subject, as HAL is crap and basically abandoned. > B) it is normal that some services (?) are listening > on various ports? > Probably not, I don't have gnome-session listening in both Gnome 2, nor Gnome 3. But no idea where your behavior might come from. > It is normal behaviour? If I can close/disable these ports, > how do this? I'd go for pf in case you're concerned about external connections. See man pf, man pfctl, and the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-pf.html > * gnome2-lite-2.32.1 > ** - I do not use IPv6. It is normal (tcp6)? Yes, even if you don't use ipv6 in practical sense, as long as it's there, services binding on *.* will bind to your ipv6 addresses too (usually loopback). It's harmless, but in case you want to block ipv6 completely, just use a quick rule in pf and nothing will get through: block quick inet6 (No further pf rules will get evaluated for inet6.) m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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