reconsidering default exit policy

[Wes Felter]

On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Geoffrey Goodell wrote:

> This has nothing to do with DNS resolution.  The point is that some
> kernels short-circuit packets destined to IP addresses corresponding to
> other interfaces of the machine.  If I had such a kernel, and one
> network interface configured as 140.247.62.119, then all packets
> destined to 140.247.62.119 would be short-circuited to the loopback
> interface.

Sure, but as I said, a 127.0.0.0/8 exit policy won't affect that 
behavior.

Wes Felter - wesley at felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/