On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:27:51PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > I don't believe that this is an airtight way of constraining this > service to local use only. > > I think you'd be far safer binding the socket to 127.0.0.1 by default; > relying on gethostbyaddr() to only return "localhost" for a loopback > address doesn't strike me as particularly clever.
A default of 127.0.0.1 is fine by me; I'll verify this works correctly. thanks, john
