On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:46:34PM +0700, Igor M Podlesny wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:10:09PM +0700, Igor M Podlesny wrote:
> >>
> >> well, not all the same, but partly. Take a look:
>
> > Yes. We know.
>
> Well. It doesn't surprise me.
>
> P.S. Is it a `feature'? ;)
>
> P.P.S. Talking seriously (as much as possible ;), which reasons don't
> let removing of 3 lines from rc.firewall?
The reason not to remove them is to avoid the steady stream of emails
to -questions, -security, -ipfw, and -net from people unaware of the
built-in protection from loopback addresses informing us that we
should have rules like that by default. The rules don't hurt
anything (just _try_ to measure a performance impact), but you should
of course feel free to not include them in your own firewall scripts.
--
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