[19507] in bugtraq
Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry Harrington)
Tue Mar 6 14:52:46 2001
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:09:41 -0800
Reply-To: Perry Harrington <pedward@WEBCOM.COM>
From: Perry Harrington <pedward@WEBCOM.COM>
X-To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <3AA4A85C.AF11CB27@algroup.co.uk>; from ben@algroup.co.uk on Tue,
Mar 06, 2001 at 09:05:32AM +0000
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:05:32AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> when routing is disabled. Further, there's no circumstance I can think
> of where it makes sense to route 127/8 from an external interface! That
It's not 127/8 that we're talking about. You can assign perfectly valid
real world IPs to lo interfaces. The purpose is to get a machine that listens
on an IP but doesn't ARP for it.
> behaviour should not be switchable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
--Perry
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