From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6738 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2003 09:52:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6730 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 09:52:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygbert.vinschen.de) (80.132.100.230) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 09:52:09 -0000 Received: by cygbert.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 294A95809A; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:52:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:52:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server Message-ID: <20031119095208.GB9027@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <054901c3ae7f$16b6bc60$2000000a@schlepptopp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00259.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:35:20AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 10 o'clock on Nov 19, "roland@webde" wrote: > > > the only chance to get rid of it, is to use unix domain socket (via > > -nolisten tcp) > > That option should be the default; ssh refuses to listen on a unix > domain socket, but appears quite happy to connect to a unix domain > socket. > > I don't know of any compelling reason to run X raw over TCP/IP these days; > it's insecure, and a bandwidth pig. AF_LOCAL sockets are implemented using AF_INET sockets on Cygwin, using a binding of 127.0.0.1 plus some overhead for security reasons. So AF_LOCAL sockets are a few percent slower than AF_INET sockets. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.