ipfilter on 6.1

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sat Aug 26 23:38:44 UTC 2006


On 2006-08-26 17:48, "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com> wrote:
>At 05:19 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> You are implicitly blocking all traffic on the lo0 interface (by the
>> modified default policy to "block" all traffic, and missing an
>> explicit rule to allow lo0 traffic).
>>
>> When a system tries to connect to itself, it uses lo0/127.0.0.1 and
>> this is not possible with your setup.
>>
>> I hope this helps a bit,
>
> Oh geez....I cant believe I forgot lo0. HOW STUPID.
> I will edit this and take another look at it.

Cool!  If this is indeed the fix, let us know :)

If you also feel like it and you are not limited by contract or
other things, I'd be interested to see how you modified IP Filter
to make it use a "block by default" policy.

Regards,
Giorgos



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