On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 11:33, Mark L. Jackson wrote:
> >>start X with the "-nolisten tcp" , if you're starting x manually with startx 
> >>the format would be "startx -- -nolisten tcp", if you have the system start X 
> >>automagically edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and change:
> 
> Tried this on Mandrake 7.1, and it completely blocks all TCP. Could not 
> browse, get weather, read email at all. Is it possible to define the 
> port to block.
> 
All this option does is tell the X server not to listen on tcp port
6000, it doesn't block anything, whatever was causing your other tcp
applications not to work is almost certainly unrelated to this option.

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