IP addresses are easily spoofed, they should not be used as a security mechanism. If you want security, you have to either trust all your networks or use curvemq security or some other authentication mechanism like a vpn.
0mq doesn't expose the IP because this is an implementation detail of the tcp transport. -Michel On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We had a problem a while back where some 'unknown machine' was sending > malformed messages and causing our ZMQ based app to lose it's mind. It took > a while to figure that out... And then once a developer on our team found > the nastygram he had trouble figuring out what machine was doing this. > > Is there a design reason that we lose this information in the area between > plain ol sockets and ZMQ messages getting delivered to the application? > > Thanks for your patience and such a great library! > > -Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
