On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:23:55 +0100, Marc Balmer <mbalmer@openbsd.org>  
wrote:

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>>> so either people live with the fact that *:port becomes 0.0.0.0:port
>>> for the IPv4 case and ::port for the IPv6 case

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>>  How about ditching support for * and just support 0.0.0.0:port and
>> ::port?
>> Anyone who agrees on this?
>> No way people can mess that up right?
>>

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>>> The config change is trivial, small and painless and can be well
>>> documented.

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>>  In case someone else agrees with me, would the change I proposed
>> also be trivial?



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> In my opinion we should not use the ambigous '*' at all, in all
> daemons.

So, at least someone agrees. ;)


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