On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:45:32 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > You might even consider "local" not only loopback, but any connection > where getpeername() and getsockname() returned addresses are > same (port-numbers will vary, of course.)
I'd be worried about doing this, because of the possibility of a stack which sends such data out over the wire even though it's to itself. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:49:09 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > IMHO it depends on how you define "localhost", and how you determine > if the connection is to "localhost" or not. Looking up the address > for the name "localhost" in DNS and checking if the address match the > source address of incoming packets is a very poor idea, for instance. I suspect that the only safe way is to wire in 127.x.x.x (for IP4) and do whatever is the equivalent in IP6.
