From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 11:52:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD16D106564A for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:52:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D4B8FC13 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so3723594eyd.13 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:52:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oQQgJttSZcrIZsubBLZde2n1/Msnr7el2gvQuksuC4Q=; b=CQ1Ghf6/4HtqcMPfxE15Bedtgr9l+wD73BwzRf2W1njv8/7mJW4U4UY81AjhekGSh8 4Uf29yXADd4bfAYDbVGP6HxNFkmxxPtFRVo7/jqS758oPu7b5IJYVt18iWSBAaYzGRtr 9M5jbhyAGMvTrTrOQzn2jJnl7VaAZkN4PuFcw= Received: by 10.14.11.38 with SMTP id 38mr1209168eew.156.1318852366090; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (hotel.grandberoun.cz. [90.182.105.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q50sm28654535eef.9.2011.10.17.04.52.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:52:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Varga To: ian ivy In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:52:42 +0200 Message-ID: <1318852362.48910.13.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME2 - avahi daemons and various ports. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:52:47 -0000 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)