[ale] Closing ports 111 & 6000

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 
> Looks like 111 is portmapper, and 6000 is X11.  Without portmapper, you
> won't have the  Network File System (or any other rpc-based services),
> and without 6000 you won't have X Windows.

You'll still have them, just not in the capacity of network
server. That is, you'll still be able to mount NFS shares,
but other machines would be able to mount yours; you'll still
be able to run your X server and local clients, but remote
clients won't be able to connect to your display.

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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