Re: OK, now that we agree

Darren Reed (avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:28:57 +1000 (EST)


In some mail from Mike Shaver, sie said:
>
> How much trouble would it be to allow some bizarre and illegal bind()
> address (255.255.255.255 springs to mind) register a socket as being a
> transparent proxy/user-space masquerade?
>
> It would seem relatively straightforward, but I suspect there are
> things here that I'm forgetting about.
>
> Mike

Umm, I'm tempted to ask, why do you want to do this ? To stop normal users
or services from connecting to it ?

darren