diff --git a/solr/exampleSolrContext.xml b/solr/exampleSolrContext.xml
index 2ccdf112d..e479203b8 100644
--- a/solr/exampleSolrContext.xml
+++ b/solr/exampleSolrContext.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 <Context docBase="${solr.docbase}" 
     crossContext="true" override="true">
 
+   <!-- For security, restrict access to clients on this machine
+        for IPv4 requests, localhost is 127.0.0.1
+        for IPv6 requests, localhost is 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 -->
+    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" 
+        allow="127\.0\.0\.1,0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1"/>
+
    <Environment
         type="java.lang.String" 
         name="solr/home"