On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:52:29PM +0800,
Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my> wrote:
>
> Just like to point out that if IP forwarding is enabled on a target host,
> other hosts on the same network could access 127.0.0.1 on that target host
> (or any interface for that matter).
>
> For some target operating systems that may still work even if IP forwarding
> is off.
Except that well configured hosts should only accept traffic on external
interfaces that makes sense. And typically traffic addressed to 127.*.*.*
shouldn't be accepted from an external interface.