Allow Loopback connections - a problem

[William Hooper]

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Steve Pruitt said:
> It is w2000.  Honestly, what happened didn't surprize me.  I guess I
> thought the allow local loopback setting put the server in a special mode
> or something.  I must not understand what local loop back means.  I
> thought it was to allow you to run vnc using local host for some minor
> testing, etc.
>
> With the recursing viewers, I am not sure what allowing local loop back is
> to be used for.
>
> Thanks for your quick response.

Loopback is mainly for using a secure tunnel (like SSH), because the
actual connection is done from the SSH server over the loopback address
(See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshwin.html).  It is disabled by
default because of the issue you saw.

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William Hooper