[vdr] Re: Programm VDR over Web

[Usenet-372112@zocki.toppoint.de (Rainer Zocholl)]

gfiala@s.netic.de(Guido Fiala)  03.10.01 20:30

Once upon a time Guido Fiala shaped the electrons to say...


>> Bind the VDR port explicit to "localhost" (127.0.0.1) or

>AFAIK, IP-sources can easily be faked - that's not secure :-(

Jepp. But 127.0.0.1 (the whole 127.x.x.x) is (usually ;-), 
better: always) bound to an extra "interface" called "local loop"
and there is no wire connected to!

If someone "fakes" 127.0.0.1 as destination he can't get's his IP 
out of his machine, and if he routes those packts to his ethernet 
he will never see an response, because every router "shot cuts" 
those pakets to his local loop interface if any other machine would be
able to answer. Second his machine may behave "strange"
because some internal processes rely on the working of the
"local loop".


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Maybe 
http:\\kieler-woche.de\
will work too

(No "www."!)

An account is already made for you ;-)
Try your normal user login.
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