Re: tcpip-forward requests and bind addresses

[Joseph Galbraith <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost>]

der Mouse wrote:
> > The difference between addresses and interfaces has already been
> > pointed out, and the text has been altered appropriately.  However, a
> > similar issue applies to loopback addresses and interfaces --
>
>
> Well spotted.  I would have mentioned it myself when I brought up
> address-vs-interface elsewhere if I'd noticed it.
>
> Here too I think using "interfaces" is wrong.  However, in this case
> I'm much less sure that using "addresses" is right.  For IPv6, there is
> exactly one loopback address, and it is ::1.  But for IPv4, all of
> 127/8 is defined as loopback, and it's not clear whether "127.0.0.1"
> should mean just listen on 127.0.0.1, or on all of 127/8 (which latter
> is hard to do on many systems, and is not what most software does).

I would definitely say "127.0.0.1" should mean 127.0.0.1,
and "127.0.0.2" should mean 127.0.0.2

I would also vote for "localhost" meaning 127.0.0.1 for the
IPv4 protocol + canonical localhost address for any other
protocols.

Thanks,

Joseph