[openbeos] Re: Smaller OSS Projects

  • From: "Jonas Sundstrom" <kirilla@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:49:40 +0200 CEST

Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ... 
> Does our net preferences have the ability to __open__ ports, to the 
> world ?!?

A port is useless in itself. 

All ports are available to BeOS apps, but they're not "open"
unless a running application has specifically opened the port,
(for the purpose of listening to incoming traffic).

AFAIK, at the moment there is no way to disallow a certain
BeOS app from opening a certain port, a la ZoneAlarm.

Perhaps you're thinking of the BONE network preferences
where one can select which network services to run.

/Jonas Sundström.                           www.kirilla.com


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