Bug#617268: Acknowledgement (ifupdown: network servers do not listen on 127.0.1.1)

2011-08-21 Thread Brian Burch
On 31/07/11 18:03, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: The explanation is, when you connect to any of 127.1/8 addresses, you get back to the localhost, as per RFC 3330: A datagram sent by a higher level protocol to an address anywhere within this block should loop back inside the host. I have

Bug#617268: Acknowledgement (ifupdown: network servers do not listen on 127.0.1.1)

2011-08-21 Thread Brian Burch
On 21/08/11 14:36, Brian Burch wrote: I've just inspected several machines, running various versions of ubuntu. Some of them have NO programs listening on the IPv4 0.0.0.0 wildcard address. Others have a mixture of explicit loopbacks from some programs, and the wildcard from others. man 7 ip

Bug#617268: Acknowledgement (ifupdown: network servers do not listen on 127.0.1.1)

2011-07-31 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:30:57 +0100 Brian Burch br...@pingtoo.com wrote: ... in other words, sshd no longer explicitly needs to listen on either of the loopback interfaces - the generic all IPv4 interfaces 0.0.0.0 is good enough. (As expected, other hosts could successfully connect to

Bug#617268: Acknowledgement (ifupdown: network servers do not listen on 127.0.1.1)

2011-07-30 Thread Brian Burch
On 26/07/11 22:45, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: I think the version from experimental should work without the patch, please test. I downloaded the source for ifupdown_0.7~alpha5.1 from the experimental repository on 28 July. make completed with a lot of warnings, but on inspection I felt none