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From: Payal Rathod <payal-netfilter@scriptkitchen.com>
Subject: Re: firewall problem continued
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:46:45 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:14:22AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> > No idea. I thought that is recommended. I mean every machine should
> > be able to access itself using all its IPs.
> 
> That would mean "all IPs on all interfaces of the machine".   It doesn't 
> include arbitrary IPs which some other machine may choose to translate to an 
> IP on this machine's interface.

Let me rephrase it. A mail server needs to connect to any IP in the world
so why cannot it connect to an IP which is in its subnet.

Thanks a lot for the info.
With warm regards,
-Payal