Norton has started blocking X11 connections

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Issue abstract:

Norton 360 has just started to block connections to an X-windows game I play. The name of the game is ‘xpilot’, and I run a local xpilot server on my home machine, so all I have to do is connect to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’. It used to show the latter as a possible server location, but now that doesn’t appear in the list of servers and trying to connect to ‘localhost’ always times out.

Detailed description:

Product & version number:

OS details:

uname -a
Darwin XXXXX.local 23.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May 1 20:09:52 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

What is the error message you are seeing?

xpilot-ng-x11: INFO: Reading options from xpilotrc file /Users/XXX/.xpilotrc.
Using pixmap copying
24 Aug 19:05:04 Locating Internet Meta server… found 1… 2 not found
24 Aug 19:05:05 Block map compression ratio is 10.62%
24 Aug 19:05:05 Server->client polygon map transfer size is 7132 bytes.
24 Aug 19:05:05 Server runs at 50 frames per second
Searching for an XPilot server on the local net…
24 Aug 19:05:17 Checking Address:(127.0.0.1)
xpilot-ng-x11: INFO: Using protocol version 0x4f15.
*** Connected to localhost
24 Aug 19:05:21 Checking Address:(127.0.0.1)
… queued at position 1
*** Login allowed.
Waiting for verify response
24 Aug 19:05:25 Goodbye Whd=whd@XXXXXX.local| (“timeout 01”)
Waiting for verify response
xpilot-ng-x11: ERROR: recv (1): (Connection refused)
Waiting for verify response
Waiting for verify response
xpilot-ng-x11: WARNING: Can’t connect to server after 6 retries
(base) whd@XXXXXX ~ [5027] %

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