Subject: bug#34617: 27.0.50; Can't bind a server process to all interfaces?

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:28:50 +0100

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

> You can, by listening to "::" but it depends on the underlying stack
> whether it works or not. It works for me :-)

That's a syntax I was definitely not aware of.  :-)  Is that new?

>> 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.

Yeah, I think that would be logical?

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