Re: Linux tcp over loopback

Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu)
22 Feb 1996 16:05:45 -0800


Dr. Delete Ph.D. (doc@lame.org) wrote:

: Linus: Alan says this is an issue with your patches to the tcp code.
: ('course he's always quick to place blame ;)

: Ever since about 1.3.62, (this worked with 1.3.59+mark6), I can't use
: irc to connect to the ircd running on the same machine.. However,
: people 'on the outside' can use my ircd without any problems. I can
: also use any ircd 'on the outside', just not 127.0.0.1.

: I'm one of many LinuxNet geeks experiencing this problem...

Same problem here. Have not tried 68 though.