On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
>> In particular, magically
>> substituting 127.0.0.1 for 0.0.0.0 seems utterly without principle.
>
> Binding a listening socket to "0.0.0.0" listens on every local IPv4 address,
> and 127.0.0.1 is one of those addresses. That's the principle. It's
> inelegant, but I expect it to work everywhere.
But... what about the machine's other addresses?
If Windows doesn't treat 0.0.0.0 to mean listen on every interface,
that's a shame. But making it only listen on 127.0.0.1 and not any of
the others does not seem better. Then, instead of 0.0.0.0 failing on
Windows, it would instead work but with different behavior. That
doesn't seem good either.
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