On Wednesday 05 May 2004 6:43 pm, Martijn Lievaart wrote:
> Oriol Magrané wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Just one question...
> > I have a firewall with the INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD policies set
> > to DROP, and now I want to allow connections from localhost to
> > localhost (any port). Which chains are implied here? INPUT? OUTPUT? Both?
> > How should the needed rule(s) be?
>
> This should do it:
> -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
> -A OUTPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
Actually, I would suggest instead:
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
:)
Antony.
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