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When the default policy for the netfilter INPUT chain is set to DROP, why should a rule allowing traffic to localhost exist?

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Question

When the default policy for the netfilter INPUT chain is set to DROP, why should a rule allowing traffic to localhost exist?

Options

  • AAll traffic to localhost must always be allowed.
  • BIt doesn't matter; netfilter never affects packets addressed to localhost.
  • CSome applications use the localhost interface to communicate with other applications.
  • Dsyslogd receives messages on localhost.

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    7% (2)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    85% (23)
  • D
    4% (1)

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Topics

#netfilter#iptables#INPUT chain#localhost traffic

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