On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 18:00:48 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But what we listen to relates to the destination address of the packets, > not the source address ...
There still is some small risk. If you OS doesn't reject packets destined for 127.*.*.* that don't come from the loopback interface, it is possible for someone on your local network to at least do a blind spoofing attack, possibly they might also be able to get replies back as well. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]