title: How to bind IntelliJ IDEA random open ports to localhost only?
body: <p>When I run IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1.2 (Ultimate or Community edition) on macOS, I observe that 3 random ports are open on all network interfaces (eth0, lo, ...). One random port is open by the idea process and the two other ports are open by a different java process launched by IntelliJ IDEA.</p>
  <p>I've removed the only plugin I've explicitly installed which is SonarLint.</p>
  <p>The debugger which is running on port 63342 is bind to localhost and this can be configured in the Preferences menu.</p>
  <p>Here is the relevant part of the output of <code>lsof -i | grep LISTEN</code> :</p>
  <pre><code>    idea   3328    orto  187u  IPv4 0x3c332685aa6872fd   0t0  TCP localhost:6942 (LISTEN)
      idea   3328    orto  686u  IPv4 0x3c332685aa623815   0t0  TCP localhost:63342 (LISTEN)
      idea   3328    orto  752u  IPv4 0x3c332685aa676de5   0t0  TCP *:53212 (LISTEN)
      java   3341    orto   33u  IPv6 0x3c332685aa5f899d   0t0  TCP *:61070 (LISTEN)
      java   3341    orto   77u  IPv6 0x3c332685b9885edd   0t0  TCP *:53210 (LISTEN)
  </code></pre>
  <p>As asked, here is the relevant part of <code>ps -ef | grep 3341</code> (it's a RemoteMavenServer):</p>
  <pre><code>/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java -d64 -Djava.awt.headless=true -Didea.version==2017.1.1 -Xmx768m -Didea.maven.embedder.version=3.3.9 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/resources_en.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/log4j.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/snappy-in-java-0.5.1.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/jna.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/jna-platform.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/annotations.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/oromatcher.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/trove4j.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/util.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/jdom.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/lucene-core-2.4.1.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven-server-api.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-common.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-lib/archetype-catalog-2.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-lib/archetype-common-2.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-lib/maven-dependency-tree-1.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-lib/nexus-indexer-3.0.4.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-lib/nexus-indexer-artifact-1.0.1.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3-server-impl.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aether-api-1.0.2.v20150114.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aether-connector-basic-1.0.2.v20150114.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aether-impl-1.0.2.v20150114.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aether-spi-1.0.2.v20150114.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aether-transport-wagon-1.0.2.v20150114.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aether-util-1.0.2.v20150114.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/cdi-api-1.0.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/commons-cli-1.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/commons-io-2.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/commons-lang-2.6.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/commons-lang3-3.4.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/guava-18.0.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/guice-4.0-no_aop.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/javax.inject-1.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/jsoup-1.7.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/jsr250-api-1.0.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-aether-provider-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-artifact-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-builder-support-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-compat-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-core-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-embedder-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-model-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-model-builder-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-plugin-api-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-repository-metadata-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-settings-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/maven-settings-builder-3.3.9.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/org.eclipse.sisu.inject-0.3.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/org.eclipse.sisu.plexus-0.3.2.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/plexus-cipher-1.7.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/plexus-component-annotations-1.6.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/plexus-interpolation-1.21.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/plexus-sec-dispatcher-1.3.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.5.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/wagon-file-2.10.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/wagon-http-2.10-shaded.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/wagon-http-shared-2.10.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/lib/wagon-provider-api-2.10.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/maven/lib/maven3/boot/plexus-classworlds-2.5.2.jar org.jetbrains.idea.maven.server.RemoteMavenServer
  </code></pre>
  <p>How to bind these three random open ports to localhost?</p>
  <p>Notes</p>
  <ul>
  <li>An issue has been created here: <a href="https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-175889" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-175889</a>.</li>
  <li>There is a question about this problem on the <a href="https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360003409060-IntelliJ-listens-on-tcp-and-udp-ports-on-address-0-0-0-0-Why-Is-it-unsecure-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">
  IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform)</a></li>
  </ul>