Re: LuaSocket: Rationale behind address arg in socket.bind

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

2010/4/12 Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas@airsoftsoftwair.de>:
> I can't imagine a case
> where I'd need to set this to a different address than 127.0.0.1 but then again, I'm
> just starting out with LuaSocket (& sockets in general)....


au contraire, if you only bind to 127.0.0.1, the socket won't go to
the network; only to the local loopback 'interface'.  IOW, it wouldn't
be accessible by other machine.

the default is '*', meaning 'all IP addresses held by this machine'


-- 
Javier