Re: 1.3.64-1.3.70 loopback bugs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 4 Mar 1996 19:39:41 +0000 (GMT)


> Okey, it's not the loopback bug...
> Then what is the problem? I run an ircd on my machine, and I can't
> connect to it from my machine, but ppl can connect from all over the
> world. I heard that it was introduced in 1.3.64. It still needs to be fixed.

I don't know. Until I've got the "It crashes the machine", "my network
fell down" type problems fixed and installed an ircd to debug it I won't.
I'm guessing its binding to the specific network address not to * and
something is looping back tcp to that address as if it were 127.0.0.*

Alan