From: Mark Wooding Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:57:21 +0000 (+0100) Subject: noip.1: Associate connection-to-remote-host aside with `realconnect'. X-Git-Tag: 1.2.0~4 X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/preload-hacks/commitdiff_plain/2f2b91d93424c015ab0ccf67be6bcb21d303616e?ds=sidebyside noip.1: Associate connection-to-remote-host aside with `realconnect'. It seemed like a non-sequitur where it was, especially after the `impbind' section was added. --- diff --git a/noip.1 b/noip.1 index 93b0a8a..6600b9d 100644 --- a/noip.1 +++ b/noip.1 @@ -175,6 +175,14 @@ rules are appended on the end. Currently, the rules in are also put at the end (before the .B _AFTER rules), though this may change later. +.IP +(Aside: An attempt to connect to a remote host may not be a hopeless failure, +even if a real IP socket is denied: +.B noip +deliberately makes no attempt to check that addresses being bound to +sockets correspond to locally available addresses; and besides, sockets +can be introduced into the directory by other programs simulating remote +servers.) .TP .BI "impbind " bind-rule Add an entry to the implicit-bind rule list. When a program attempts to @@ -213,14 +221,6 @@ are also put at the end (before the rules), though this may change later. .RE .PP -(Aside: An attempt to connect to a remote host may not be a hopeless failure, -even if a real IP socket is denied: -.B noip -deliberately makes no attempt to check that addresses being bound to -sockets correspond to locally available addresses; and besides, sockets -can be introduced into the directory by other programs simulating remote -servers.) -.PP An .I acl-entry is a comma-separated list of entries of the form: