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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:37:50 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
Subject:   Re: ipfilter on 6.1
Message-ID:  <20060826233750.GA3300@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060826174612.01982d10@sixcompanies.com>
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On 2006-08-26 17:48, "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> wrote:
>At 05:19 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> You are implicitly blocking all traffic on the lo0 interface (by the
>> modified default policy to "block" all traffic, and missing an
>> explicit rule to allow lo0 traffic).
>>
>> When a system tries to connect to itself, it uses lo0/127.0.0.1 and
>> this is not possible with your setup.
>>
>> I hope this helps a bit,
>
> Oh geez....I cant believe I forgot lo0. HOW STUPID.
> I will edit this and take another look at it.

Cool!  If this is indeed the fix, let us know :)

If you also feel like it and you are not limited by contract or
other things, I'd be interested to see how you modified IP Filter
to make it use a "block by default" policy.

Regards,
Giorgos




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