Hi All,
after doing some more research, I found out that this is really
an open nerve for some people. I wonder why my previous e-mail didn't
provoke a flame-war. Probably considered flame-bait. My apologies.
It is really a problem to me: undefined ip-addresses in the
127.0.0.0/8 range reacting to pings.
Cross checking with other OS-es really did show show some
interesting diferences:
FreeBSD 4.8 : mask /8, does not react to ping 127.0.0.2
Solaris 9 : mask /8, does not react to ping 127.0.0.2
HPUX 11.0 : mask /8, does react to ping 127.0.0.2
Windows XP : mask /8, does react to ping 127.0.0.2
Can somebody check Cisco IOS for this? Don't have access atm.
So my solution to set the mask to /32 (255.255.255.255)
would at best be a work around. I'm still interested in a solution
but consider iptables a too big a gun for this (and which idiot
would run iptables on a stand alone box anyway?)
I am open for sugestions.
Sincerely,
Jan.
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