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Re: Fw: Can a daemon listen only on some interfaces?



At 09.12.2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2001, Guido Hennecke wrote:
> >         127.0.0.1  Gateway <your official ip address>   Interface <his
> >         externel interface>
> > 
> > he can reach your service bound to 127.0.0.1. And this without
> > activating ip_forward on your computer!
> Is this true even if the policy of the forward chain (for ipchains) is set
> to deny ? (and the equivalent, for iptables) ?

Those packets did not go throught the forwards chain. For local
interfaces no routing is needed.

Guido
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