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[Alexey Eremenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all !

I'm Running SUSE Linux 10.0, x86. with Apache2 HTTP server at home.
I want to block access to my Apache2 server from all interfaces, including
myself (loopback).

I set up iptables, and did:

iptables -F INPUT
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
iptables -F OUTPUT
iptables -A OUTPUT -j DROP

Those 4 commands, theoretically, should kill all my network activity. (I
have no IP forwarding)
and this stopped pinging to myself:
ping 127.0.0.1

but for some totally unknown reason, I still could access "http://localhost";

two questions:
1. why I still could access "http://localhost"; ?
2. how to disable *all* network traffic ?

Thanks.
-Alexey. 20.1.2006.