> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 01:30 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > > That's correct. If you want to talk to a loopback-only service, > > you should be connecting to 'localhost', *not* to the hostname.
[Christoph Anton Mitterer] > Well why not? Imagine that one server in a cluster serves a debian > package repo (e.g. via http)... That doesn't sound like a "loopback-only service" at all. > - let the webserver listen as well on 127.0.1.1,... sure that works but > it's rather ugly to make such special handling... and not all services > are even able to bind to multiple addresses. Special handling? No, I'm pretty sure the default for all web servers in Debian is to listen on INADDR_ANY. That's not special handling at all. Special handling would be to listen on 11.22.33.44 and 127.0.0.1 specifically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130731214229.ga6...@p12n.org
