Steam listens publicly on Remote Play port even if remote play is disabled

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11104 · opened 2024-07-17 by fishman · updated 2024-07-17 · 0 comments · github

Ffishman 2024-07-17 github

I disabled remote play, but steam is still listening on 0.0.0.0:27036, which should not be happening. Steamwebhelper is also listening on 8080 which nobody seems to be able to explain.

netstat -nlp | grep steam
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      296911/./steamwebhe
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:41369         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      296659/steam
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:42423         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      296659/steam
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:57343         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      296659/steam
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:27060         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      296659/steam
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:27036           0.0.0.0:*                           296659/steam

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): 1721173529
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Archlinux
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes

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