On Wed, 2004-Nov-10 09:22:39 -0500, Michael Butler wrote:
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>> Maybe you should allow everything on lo0, in and out.
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>127/8 should always be allowed on the loopback interface,
>127/8 should always be dropped from all other interfaces.
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>I am "uncomfortable" saying that everything should be allowed ..

I agree with the latter but the former is unnecessarily restrictive.
By default, FreeBSD generates a static route to `hostname` via lo0.

The default ipfw rules are:
 100 pass all from any to any via lo0
 200 deny all from any to 127.0.0.0/8
 300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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