On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Mikkel, Robby,
>
> > > Feb 19 17:46:18 weisktsv03 kernel: Packet log: input DENY lo PROTO=1
> > > 24.68.176.193:3 24.68.176.193:1 L=132 S=0xC0 I=4058 F=0x0000 T=255 (#13)
> > >
> > > What could be wrong? Why is 24.68.176.193 trying to connect to itself fro
> > > port 3 to port 1?
> > >
> > Even more interesting, it is talking to itself on the loopback device,
> > not on a NIC... I would check your routing table first, then your
> > firewall rules.
>
> Probably the loopback device is only open for the 127.0.0.0/8 address range.
> I have been wondering before if the loopback device should be opened only for
> this range, or for all addresses. So maybe somebody could tell us something
> about that.
>
> CUO,
>
> Leonard.
>
In my firewall rules, I have the loopback interface open for everything.
ipchains -A input -i lo -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A output -i lo -j ACCEPT
Mikkel
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