Re: OK, now that we agree
Darren Reed (avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:54:10 +1000 (EST)
In some mail from Alan Cox, sie said:
>
> > OK, then how does the kernel react to inbound SYNs, etc.? Does it
> > forge them back itself, or somehow get the process to?
>
> If you are masquerading I guess the kernel would do it.
>
> > I'd prefer having the process do it, because otherwise it's hard to
> > handle to semantics of CONNREFUSED correctly.
>
> Humm.. I guess the masquerade can always reply with stuff like
>
> "550 Host is down"
>
> if its connect fails.
oh, I assumed you were going to do it the 'other' way which uses address
translation and rewrite to localhost going in.