From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 10:43:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6255616A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ferengi.borderworlds.dk (borderworlds.dk [62.79.110.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203F843FDF for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xi@borderworlds.dk) Received: from borg.borderworlds.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ferengi.borderworlds.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8245C38 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:43:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by borg.borderworlds.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5AE55B848; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:43:30 +0100 (CET) Sender: xi@borderworlds.dk To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3FBF76DE.4020706@xtaz.co.uk> <20031122151104.GA6000@energistic.com> From: Christian Laursen Date: 22 Nov 2003 19:43:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031122151104.GA6000@energistic.com> Message-ID: <86n0aoi6r1.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk> Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: What's changed relating to localhost then? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:43:34 -0000 Steve Ames writes: > If you telnet to 127.0.0.1 the system still believes you are > coming from your public IP. Bizarre that. Other IPs don't act > that way. My system has two public IPs and 127.0.0.1. If I > telnet to myself on either of the public IPs then I appear > from the correct IP. However 127.0.0.1 no longer seems to > work that way and that does break a number of things that > expect to be connected to by 127.0.0.1 I can confirm this behaviour. It is possible to force the local address to 127.0.0.1 though. [xi@borg ~]$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25 [19:39] Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 borg.borderworlds.dk ESMTP Postfix Nov 22 19:39:44 borg postfix/smtpd[2683]: connect from borg.borderworlds.dk[10.1.0.2] [xi@borg ~]$ telnet -s 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 25 [19:40] Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 borg.borderworlds.dk ESMTP Postfix Nov 22 19:40:06 borg postfix/smtpd[2683]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Fortunately this behaviour didn't break anything here, but it does seem broken nonetheless. I updated my machine earlier today and got 5.2-BETA: FreeBSD borg.borderworlds.dk 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #3: Sat Nov 22 13:25:47 CET 2003 root@borg.borderworlds.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BORG i386 -- Best regards Christian Laursen