[ale] Closing ports 111 & 6000

Joseph A. Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 6 12:37:00 EDT 2002


[Correcting a "doh"]

"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> 
> 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

...not...

> 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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