On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:22:26AM -0600, James Nobis wrote: > if i was on localhost and was to connect to port 443 it'd be 127.0.0.1:443 > not my external ip address on loopback. > > am I missing something?
Packets are sent over the loopback interface to local addresses more often than you would think. tcpdump lo0 for a week and see what shows up. - jolan
