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Re: Discussion around a --bindtodev option for git-daemon

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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date
Oct 9, 2012, 14:48 UTC
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On Wednesday 2012-09-26 18:36, Ronan Bignaux wrote:
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>I wrote this little patch to add a restrict option to bind only to a
>specific network interface.
>
>I'd not deal with --inetd since there are some bugs in xinetd with ipv6
>( and no more maintener ) , systemd/upstart are also Linux centric and
>subject to controversy...
>
>"listen" option was not more useful in my case because it need ip as
>parameter (you need fix ip or custom script for example).

There is a reason --listen wants an address: because bind(2) binds to addresses, and in principle, that is really what is wanted, since you want to continue being able to connect to your service from-to localhost.

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  1. Ronan BignauxSep 26, 2012
  2. Jan EngelhardtOct 9, 2012

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