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Re: Port Mapping Questions


  • Subject: Re: Port Mapping Questions
  • From: John B
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:26:00 +0000

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Subject: Re: [xAP_developer] Port Mapping Questions

>
> >The trouble is, the "additional port binding" bit is in
the spec, and was
> >already out, and widely in use before I picked up on it. We have
discussed
> >this in the past, and decided to pretty much leave it "as
is" in the
> >interests of stability.
>
> Ummh... But if they are on the same host, you should use *internal*
> sockets anyway ("unix domain sockets" on UNIX/Linux). Or are
> all sockets on Windows always network-visible?

They are always network visible (to my knowledge) however you can just bind
to
the loopback address, effectively making the socket internal to the host.

Regards,

John






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