Hello Florian and Simon,

On Wed, 27 May 2015 00:24:20 +0200
Florian Will <florian.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> > Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
It really listen on *:<port> to support dynamic interfaces, but as I
can see, it do some filtering on connection attempts and multicast
interactions.

> 
> Upstream ticket:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/bugs/218/
> 
> The -i cmdline and network_interface config options appear to be
> unrelated to the HTTP listening socket. Maybe related to SSDP? I don't
> really understand the code in getifaddr.c after taking a quick look
> at it.
It initialize lan_addr[] array, which is used later in upnphttp.c and
various SSDP related places.

>Maybe there is
> some check for the correct interface when accepting incoming
> connections, and "bad" connections are dropped right away?
I believe there is, Simon, feel free to check.

> Still, it would probably be better to only listen on interfaces
> specified in the options.
Well, you're right in common, but this particular codebase is
complicated enough (and is _working_ in many unexpected (for me)
installation) to spend our time to fix this. 


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