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Re: OK, now that we agree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Tue Apr 9 16:25:41 1996
From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To: shaver@neon.ingenia.com (Mike Shaver)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:28:57 +1000 (EST)
Cc: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604091441.KAA22244@neon.ingenia.com> from "Mike Shaver" at Apr 9, 96 10:41:11 am
In some mail from Mike Shaver, sie said:
>
> How much trouble would it be to allow some bizarre and illegal bind()
> address (255.255.255.255 springs to mind) register a socket as being a
> transparent proxy/user-space masquerade?
>
> It would seem relatively straightforward, but I suspect there are
> things here that I'm forgetting about.
>
> Mike
Umm, I'm tempted to ask, why do you want to do this ? To stop normal users
or services from connecting to it ?
darren
