Connecting to the Internet

[Chris Peterman]

By default no services (Things like HTTP Servers, FTP Servers, SSH
Servers, etc) are installed by default, thus no ports are listening in a
default Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu install. To see for yourself open a
terminal and run "netstat -l" and look at the top (You'll have to Shift
+PageUp a couple times). If there are things called
localhost at localdomain listening its okay (these are listening on what is
called the Local Loopback device, which is basically the computer
listening to itself).

In short unless you install a server, none will be listening :P

~ Chris Peterman

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:19 -0800, Asif Lodhi wrote:
> Hello fellow Ubuntu users,
> 
> I have just installed Ubuntu and want to know how I can connect to the
> Internet without jeopardizing the security of my system.  I have just
> installed 5.10 from one of the CDs I received from Ubuntu website.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> --
> 
> Asif
> 
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