Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

[<bob thestuff net>]

Its an ORB. For compatability with other ORBs, IIOP needs to be enabled.
When someone writes an app that doesnt use ORBit, but uses some other ORB,
it wont work if you disable IIOP. (assuming it doesnt support ORBit's unix
socket protocol)

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Paul Warren wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tomas Ogren wrote:
> > > On 12 June, 2000 - John Kennedy sent me these 2.2K bytes:
> > >
> > > >   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?
> > >
> > > It's already listening to unix domain sockets.. and btw, the N in GNOME
> > > is Network.. But anyway:
> > > echo 'ORBIIOPIPv4=0' > $prefix/etc/orbitrc
> > > echo 'ORBIIOPIPv6=0' >> $prefix/etc/orbitrc
> > 
> > Can I repeat my request for this to become the default behaviour?
> 
> So, excuse my ignorance, but by executing the above two line script,
> this will cause GNOME to NOT use TCP/IP ports, rather sockets for
> communicating?
> 
> If this is the case, I would agree that that would be a better default
> behavior.
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
> 
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