listening ports

[nrvale0 pop uky edu]

>I would guess that these open ports have something to do with orbit. This 
>uses tcpwrappers, so mess with /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny if you 
>are afraid. 

  Hmm, but the 2100 ports are ephemeral(sp) and there is no guarantee
that the GNOME applications will be listening on the same ports 
the next time I login. So you can't add hosts.deny rules based on 
a port number and I'm not sure how you would do so by name.

/etc/hosts.allow
gnome-name-server:127.0.0.1

/etc/hosts.deny
gnome-name-server:ALL

  That may work for gnome-name-server if you added the necessary
entry in /etc/services(or maybe not) but then you would have to 
add something for every panel app, correct?

  I'm about to run to class so I don't have time right now to 
dive into the GNOME docs, but is this kind of thing mentioned
in the ORBit docs anywhere? Somewhere else?

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