Re: Why tcp sockets for dashbaord?

[Steev <steev steev net>]

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msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>          I just this question in the abiword bugzilla about dashboard.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
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> It appears that the dashboard uses tcp sockets and quite regularly.  With a
> misconfigured firewall this can cause serious slow downs in Abiword as the
> input
> is filtered by the kernel.  Iptables rules which look like the following are
> doing the damage:
> 
> iptables -P INPUT DROP
> 
> If the administrator or user does not remember to enable INPUT on the
> loopback
> interface after such a rule.  Therefore, enabling INPUT on the loopback
> interface such as like:
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p all -j ACCEPT
> 
> will resolve this issue.  As will removing the dashboard.
> 
> Here's the question though:  Why does the dashboard use TCP sockets
> instead of
> UNIX sockets?  Using UNIX sockets would resolve this issue even with a
> misguided
> firewall configuration.
> 
> regards
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
> 
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I believe it uses them because of the ability to use beagle across a
network.
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