Re: First line in /etc/hosts
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:21:09AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Mark Brown writes:
>
> > > ...NIS needs to hand out the IP address of the machine...
>
> > Machines don't have IP numbers. Interfaces have IP numbers. Every machine
>
> Actually, that's not quite the case (as a number of users of Linux's ARP
> implementation have found), though it's a good approximation.
Indeed. For Linux, nodes have IP *numbers* which are all equal, and you have
to take great pains to make sure it behaves in any different way. iproute2,
arptables and the relative black magic of arp_filter are your only ways to
try to influence that. Usual route, ifconfig, etc are useless.
BTW, as a corolary, always firewall off 127.0.0.1 to any non-lo traffic,
even when interface forwarding is disabled. You Have Been Warned.
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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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