hwb@MERIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun) (10/10/89)
Hi: For quite some time already we are seeing syslog messages logged from a variety of machines on the NSFNET backbone nodes. All the originating machines appear to have the same operating system. Turns out that they send the syslog messages to 127.0.0.1, and the campus and regional networks then forward it to the NSFNET backbone. Could people please verify whether their loopback interface is configured right? I personally, for example, would not want all my mail exchanges etc. logged at far away places without explicitly configuring it that way... It may also be of interest to have regional and campus networks filter out packets to 127.0.0.1. -- Hans-Werner