I hadn't thought of that. That's a great idea. I just tested it, and it works as advertised.
Thanks! Dan -----Original Message----- From: Brad Burdick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to close port 4080 [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > You need a firewall to restrict all in/out traffic on port number 4080. doesn't the HTTPServer service <bind ...> element's host attribute allow one to specify the host ip address to bind to? e.g., <service class="org.apache.xindice.server.services.HTTPServer" docroot="./docs/" name="HTTPServer"> <bind chunksize="32768" host="127.0.0.1" keepalive="16" linger="1000" port="4080" reverse="no" timeout="300" /> ... specifying the localhost ip address here should prevent all external host access. by default, i believe, it binds to all configured interface addresses. of course, if you need access from other than your localhost this won't work. -brad -- Brad Burdick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://media.org/ | The medium is NOT the message
