Disable local loopback connections
Greetings. I hate computers and especially networks but I love software languages and programming. Zope is tolerable as a medium to allow me to express creative language use. Thanks for listening. :-) BTW, I would like to be able to test my server's connectivity from the Internet. Something goofy occasionally happens with the damned computer/firewall/network interface/network card, etc. etc. etc... A reboot puts things back in order. (SUSE 10.3 on Intel dtgblah? board) My server stays up and running but no one can get to it. And I have no way of finding out unless I happen to check it myself outside the firewall. Scriptable proxy services are few and far between and unreliable. A couple I have found are .6a.nl and freeproxyserver.net which, until yesterday, allowed me to send an HTTP request using Python but now requires Javascript enabled and I'm certainly not going to mess with the Mechanizer Python module or whatever just for this little problem, though it may be an interesting module. .6a.nl has reported a "bandwidth exceeded" message for a week or so. Or else they're just picking on me for sumitting a proxy request every hour on the hour (crontab). BTW, you can probably thank me for FreeProxyServer.net shutting down their URL request capability :-) So, I would like to be able to submit a request via the httplib Python module and have it _not_ use the local loopback. There must be a way to preface a request URL with the gateway or something but I'd have to go back to school to figure it out. And I'm tired of school. It's expensive and not all instructors are worth their class time. Anyway, greetings and happy Zoping to you. -Tom
+-------[ Tom ]---------------------- | Greetings. I hate computers and especially networks but I love software | languages and programming. Zope is tolerable as a medium to allow me to | express creative language use. Thanks for listening. :-) | | BTW, I would like to be able to test my server's connectivity from the | Internet. Something goofy occasionally happens with the damned | computer/firewall/network interface/network card, etc. etc. etc... A | reboot puts things back in order. Your IP changed and your firewall didn't change its rules to match? | So, I would like to be able to submit a request via the httplib Python | module and have it _not_ use the local loopback. There must be a way to | preface a request URL with the gateway or something but I'd have to go | back to school to figure it out. And I'm tired of school. It's | expensive and not all instructors are worth their class time. Is there a question in there, or just a statement about things you like and don't like? -- Andrew Milton akm@theinternet.com.au
On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Andrew Milton wrote:
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| Greetings. I hate computers and especially networks but I love | software languages and programming. Zope is tolerable as a medium | to allow me to express creative language use. Thanks for | listening. :-) | | BTW, I would like to be able to test my server's connectivity from | the Internet. Something goofy occasionally happens with the damned | computer/firewall/network interface/network card, etc. etc. etc... | A reboot puts things back in order.
Your IP changed and your firewall didn't change its rules to match?
Hmm...would have to test this. The only rule I'm aware of is the one to allow HTTP connections on port 80, so I think it's unlikely.
| So, I would like to be able to submit a request via the httplib | Python module and have it _not_ use the local loopback. There must | be a way to preface a request URL with the gateway or something but | I'd have to go back to school to figure it out. And I'm tired of | school. It's expensive and not all instructors are worth their | class time.
Is there a question in there, or just a statement about things you like and don't like?
Ahem. Yes, I think the question implied in my rambling monologue is "How would one specify a URL in a browser or from a script so that the local machine doesn't look at it's IP table or whatever and say, 'Hey, that's me. I don't have to go over the Internet for this.'" I suspect there's probably a different way of doing this like disabling the local loopback in the network interface but such is beyond me. -Tom
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Ahem. Yes, I think the question implied in my rambling monologue is "How would one specify a URL in a browser or from a script so that the local machine doesn't look at it's IP table or whatever and say, 'Hey, that's me. I don't have to go over the Internet for this.'"
http://localhost:8080/... or http://127.0.0.1:8080/... Hth, Michael - -- http://blog.d2m.at http://planetzope.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKb+Mil0uAvQJUKVYRAhV/AJ9edIbhIDS6JYLC5pOIS74zbBCmvwCeNGmo HkRsDgbzRK1kjmfDRzVGBLQ= =Rtxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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