Thanks for your help billywhizz.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:59 PM, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote:
> if you want to listen on multiple interfaces and know which interface
> a peer is using, then you would have to do something like this:
>
> var net = require("net");
> var os = require("os");
>
> function connectionHandler(peer) {
> console.log(peer.address());
> }
>
> var interfaces = os.getNetworkInterfaces();
> for(name in interfaces) {
> var interface = interfaces[name];
> interface.forEach(function(entry) {
> if(entry.family === "IPv4") {
> var s = net.createServer(connectionHandler);
> s.listen(80, entry.address);
> console.log("listening on " + entry.address);
> }
> });
> }
>
> On Feb 27, 11:08 pm, Tim Whidden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks all for your replies.
> >
> > Perhaps the question is really, is there anyway to query which network
> > interface one's server is using? os.networkInterfaces() has the
> information
> > I'm looking for, but I don't understand how I can tell which interface is
> > the proper one.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 23:25, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > as far as i know if you want to get the specific ip address of an
> > > > interface then you will have to bind explicitly to that IP address
> and
> > > > not to "0.0.0.0" in order to get the correct IP from getsockname,
> > > > which is the system call used under the hood. so, instead of doing:
> >
> > > > server.listen(80) or server.listen(80, "0.0.0.0")
> >
> > > > you need to do:
> >
> > > > server.listen(80, "10.11.12.100")
> >
> > > > replacing 10.11.12.100 with the IP address you want to listen on.
> >
> > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5759031/getsockname-always-returni.
> ..
> >
> > > That's correct. This thread is a reworded version of
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/f2a93fe022.
> ..
> >
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