[19508] in bugtraq
Re: Loopback and multi-homed routing flaw in TCP/IP stack.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Mar 6 14:55:21 2001
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:31:39 +0000
Reply-To: Ben Laurie <ben@ALGROUP.CO.UK>
From: Ben Laurie <ben@ALGROUP.CO.UK>
X-To: Perry Harrington <pedward@webcom.com>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Perry Harrington wrote:
>
> 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.
You may not be talking about 127/8 but we are (and I freely admit that
may not have been made completely clear).
Cheers,
Ben.
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