invalid ip addr on hg serve

Martin Marques martin at marquesminen.com.ar
Fri Mar 28 16:11:48 CDT 2008


Kevin Greiner escribió:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com 
> <mailto:teekaysoh at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk
>     <mailto:mg at daimi.au.dk>> wrote:
>      >
>      >  Your computer can have several "network interfaces". If you have two
>      >  network cards in the machine, then there will be a network interface
>      >  for each.
>      >
>      >  But your computer also has a "virtual" network card which listens to
>      >  the address 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> also known as
>     localhost. This interface is
>      >  always present and is often used for TCP communication between
>      >  processes that live on the same machine.
> 
>     Thanks to everyone on helping to clarify this. I'd suppose relatively
>     few users have more than one network card? ;-)
> 
> 
> My work laptop has two NICs: wired and wireless. And I get a virtual NIC 
> when I'm connected to the corporate VPN. So that's three although I 
> typically only have 2 active (wireless and VPN) when I'm out of the office.
> 
> I agree: the message could be more clear. Why not replace 0.0.0.0 
> <http://0.0.0.0> with "<all interfaces>"?

What does 0/0 mean when used with iptables? I feel it's very clear. IMHO.



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