Bug#3143: sysvinit init.d/network script buglet

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> Package: sysvinit
>
> From: Lukas Nellen <lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx>
>
> To me, it looks like there is a small bug in the way the networking
> gets configured in the base system. The problem is the loopback
> network 127.0.0.0. AFAIK, no packet addressed to any address on that
> network should ever leave the local host. Instead, the loopback
> interface on the local machine has to accept ALL such packets, not
> just those sent to 127.0.0.1. Could someone confirm that or point me
> to a document which states the contrary?

Well I couldn't find it documented, but the way Debian does it now
is the same as Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.4 and FreeBSD do it (I just
checked).

So I think the "route add 127.0.0.1" is how it should be done.

I'm closing this bug report.

Mike.
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