[ale] Close port

[James Sumners]

Uh, a port is only open if a process has opened it. Short of killing
the process that opened it, your only option is dropping any requests
to that port with an iptables rule.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Based on Alex's recent post with an errant port, I realized I have a gap in
> knowledge.
>
> As root, how can I close an open port without firewall stuff and regardless
> of whether a process is attached to the port or not?
>
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