Thrift servers bind to "all" addresses (INADDR_ANY). If you want to change that, you'll have to write your own TSocket class. We wanted out servers t bind only on the IPv6 loopback address (so the servers aren't reachable from anywhere off-host); we did that by patching the source.
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