On Friday 17 December 2004 18:17, Jason Opperisano wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 18:01, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: > > Agreed, but is that any reason to make it easier for them? I use similar > > rules which BTW are out of Oskar's Tutorial. While I thankfully haven't > > seen it yet on a Linux box (and with any luck I won't), on windows boxes > > it's not unusual for programs to create or use interfaces and assign IPs > > to them and then use these interfaces to query your network. AOL does > > this constantly and although I believe they are trying to determine the > > most appropriate server to assign to your connection, it's still > > unnerving to see public IPs on your LAN. :-p > > then the rules should have interface restrictions as well. do or do not > do, there is no try. Huh? If it's not an IP you assigned why let it out on any interface? I'm not sure I follow you here. On a separate note, I want to take a second to thank you for the time you've put in over the last months helping the less knowlegable (such as myself!). I appreciate your efforts. Jeff
