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Re:Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to bui... by ryan-c on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:40PM (#16823699)
The trick is that they want the application to be able to see what the original destination IP and port were. I'm not sure if a pf redirect preserves that information.
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Re:Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to bui... by jlgaddis on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:47PM (#16824286)
It does -- or appears to, at least, for my instances of (OpenBSD's) spamd.
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