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bug#34617: 27.0.50; Can't bind a server process to all interfaces?
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#34617: 27.0.50; Can't bind a server process to all interfaces? |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:25:22 +0100 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Somebody on irc told me that
>>
>> :host "0.0.0.0"
>>
>> will give me the INADDR_ANY thing I want... So perhaps that should just
>> be added to the doc string?
>
> And the same somebody pointed out that then you can't listen to ipv6 and
> ipv4 at the same time. Probably?
>
You can, by listening to "::" but it depends on the underlying stack
whether it works or not. It works for me :-)
> So perhaps there should be a
>
> :host 'any
>
> thing to just listen to a port on all available interfaces...
Sure, as long as we make it error out if :family is specified, unless
you want
:family 'ipv6
:host 'any
to mean 'listen only on IPv6' interfaces and similarly for 'ipv4.
Robert
bug#34617: 27.0.50; Can't bind a server process to all interfaces?, Robert Pluim, 2019/02/22