On Friday 27 February 2004 4:54 pm, Aldo S. Lagana wrote: > I noticed on one of my netfilter gateways, I am seeing a lot of loopback > traffic. It is high-port number traffic. I don't recall ever seeing any > loopback traffic before. > > I run iptables, squid, frees/wan, poptop, portsentry, squidguard...it's > weird - I have another box that runs those and has 0 loopback traffic.. Is there any difference in /etc/hosts, or the DNS resolution for the two machines when they want to look up (a) their own hostnames, or (b) "localhost" ? Antony. -- Wanted: telepath. You know where to apply. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.