localhost connections showing source address 0.0.0.0

[Kris Kennaway]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Sep-29 22:24:02 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Going back at least as far as January 2007 some of the package build 
>> machines have occasionally experienced a problem where a fetch(1) via a 
>> localhost:3128 squid proxy are denied because squid sees the connection as 
>> having a source address of 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1.
> 
> Can you capture source port as well (squid.conf says %>p will do this)?

Thanks, I am tcpdumping for this already but will change squid.conf.

> Is there any correlation with the source port or package being fetched?
> Is it consistent?

There is no consistency, repeating the same fetch will work.  It's only 
happening on something like 0.002% of all squid connections.

Kris