make gnome listen on localhost:*

[John Kennedy <jk csuchico edu>]

  I happened to nmap myself and noticed that GNOME has a huge number
of open (listening) TCP/IP ports open on my box.  Is there any way to get
it to connect to localhost only instead of listening to all the ports
(and my ethernet port in particular)?  Better yet, no TCP/IP at all
using unix-domain sockets and such?

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COMMAND    PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
sshd       173    root    4u  IPv6    131       TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
sshd       173    root    5u  IPv4    135       TCP *:1024 (LISTEN)
named      175    root   21u  IPv4    152       TCP localhost:domain (LISTEN)
sendmail   177    root    4u  IPv6    183       TCP *:smtp (LISTEN)
panel     1391 warlock    6u  IPv4  41071       TCP *:1456 (LISTEN)
gmc       1393 warlock    6u  IPv4  41083       TCP *:1457 (LISTEN)
gnome-nam 1405 warlock    4u  IPv4  41156       TCP *:1459 (LISTEN)
slogin    1414    root    4u  IPv4  41318       TCP akasha.net.Chico.CA.US:736->north.net.CSUChico.EDU:22 (ESTABLISHED)
tasklist_ 1431 warlock    5u  IPv4  41479       TCP *:1460 (LISTEN)
deskguide 1441 warlock    5u  IPv4  41501       TCP *:1461 (LISTEN)
gnomexmms 1459 warlock    5u  IPv4  41545       TCP *:1462 (LISTEN)
life_appl 1468 warlock    5u  IPv4  41604       TCP *:1463 (LISTEN)

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Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on akasha.net.Chico.CA.US (132.241.60.35):
(The 1513 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port       State       Service
22/tcp     open        ssh                     
25/tcp     open        smtp                    
1024/tcp   open        kdm                     
1456/tcp   open        dca                     
1457/tcp   open        valisys-lm              
1459/tcp   open        proshare1               
1460/tcp   open        proshare2               
1461/tcp   open        ibm_wrless_lan          
1462/tcp   open        world-lm                
1463/tcp   open        nucleus                 

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1 second