-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160

hi,

Tony Finch wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, OpenMacNews wrote:
>> if there's a check you can suggest i can run to help clarify, happy to
>> do so ...
> 
> Not a trivial one or I would have done it myself :-)

well, i didn't want to presume ... you could be 'occupied' at a pub, or 
sumthin' ;-)

> The thing to do is to
> write something to call getpeername() on a connected unix domain socket
> and print the result.
> 
>>> 0.0.0.0 is a synonym for localhost.
>> clear.  just odd to me that they'd use 0.0.0.0, and that the "ususal"
>> 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost' entries in hosts.allow are simply
>> infeffectual/ignored.
> 
> 0.0.0.0 would make sense if the socket address were unset or incorrectly
> set.

hmmm ... food for thought while i read-up.  sounds like it's worth posting on 
info-cyrus, too.

thx!

cheers,

richard
- --

/"\
\ /  ASCII Ribbon Campaign
 X   against HTML email, vCards
/ \  & micro$oft attachments

[GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com
fingerprint: 780A 5C81 D446 C616 B113  AA3A 9BF4 3736 88A5 678E
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin)

iEYEAREDAAYFAkNVIOMACgkQm/Q3NoilZ44QLQCff3hJgS88GRCVBbZr32vDFxDh
AOQAoIJivTErmeV4pu4i3eDE4tRHHDqG
=l/48
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


-- 
## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users 
## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/
## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

Reply via email to