Move the BBD port 1984 to localhost

[Peter Toft]

Hi guys

I have a Linuxbox monitoring it self plus pinging a few other sites.
There is no reporting of eg. disk/cpu from the remote sites.
Therefore I like to move the open port 1984 of BBD to localhost 127.0.0.1
rather than the external IP-address of my box.

I have set in my bb-hosts:
127.0.0.1  localhost # bbd

But nmap <mymachine> gives
...
1984/tcp open  bigbrother
...

i.e. the port is opened also on my external interface - (as it is on my 
127.0.0.1)

How can I avoid this? I have been into the documentation...

Best


Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto at linuxbog.dk] http://petertoft.dk
I blog at http://www.version2.dk/blogs/petertoft