Hi, I found that by default my box is listening on port 6000 on all network interfaces: # netstat -l -v -e -p -n Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 30523842 19132/X I think it should be disabled or even better configurable in /etc/conf.d/xdm . At the moment I have disabled that in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers by adding "-nolisten tcp" on the line defining local display :0.
One might want to have a look at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171853 Jakub suggested to use ~/.xserverrc to change the listening behaviour. In my opinion the default should be -nolisten tcp. @x11: any opinions on this?
discussion is already going on in the duped bug Thanks *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 193044 ***