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Re: Can a daemon listen only on some interfaces?



At 08.12.2001, Michael Wood wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:09:50PM +0100, Guido Hennecke wrote:
[...]
> > It is not possible to configure a deamon to listen on an
> > interface only.  It is only possible to bind it to an ip
> > address.
> That's splitting hairs ;)

Oh! I don't think so!

It is very different, if i can bind to an interface in a different
network or if i only could bind to an ip address which is reachable from
any network.

I security cases it is very important!

Regards, Guido
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