From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:48:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Discussion around a --bindtodev option for git-daemon
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1210091646430.7433@nerf07.vanv.qr>
In-Reply-To: <50632F15.1030908@scourge.biz>

On Wednesday 2012-09-26 18:36, Ronan Bignaux wrote:

>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.