On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 18:00:48 -0400,
Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> But what we listen to relates to the destination address of the packets,
> not the source address ...
There still is some small risk. If you OS doesn't reject packets destined
for 127.*.*.* that don't come from the loopback interface, it is possible
for someone on your local network to at least do a blind spoofing attack,
possibly they might also be able to get replies back as well.