Hello all.
I am trying to find a way to have services running on my own system
which have web-like interfaces. At the same time, I may also be
running an actual web-server. I could avoid conflict by chosing
another port, (but that's ugly), or perhaps by putting some object
in the filesystem (non-portable), but the best way I've come up with
so far is to define a new domain name, giving the new services URLs
such as http://myservice.local/.
This has several problems, which I would like to know the possibility
of overcoming, namely:
0) Can I declare a second looback device, and if so, must the address
come out of the 127. address space ?
1) Can the resulting interface be configured so that servers intending
to serve the machine as a whole (via INADDR_ANY) will be unable to
find it, and will not contend with it ?
If (1) is not possible, would adding this functionality
(reserved/private interfaces) to the existing kernel be acceptable ?
Would it be generally useful ? Would it interact badly with anything ?
Thanks
Martin.
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