Just deployed the '::' on an EC2 instance; which doesn't have access to the 
world via IPv6. The service responded normally. So I would say that on 
machines that support IPv6, '::' is a better solution than '0.0.0.0'. What 
does anyone else think?

On Saturday, October 27, 2012 2:59:41 PM UTC-7, Trevor Norris wrote:
>
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 7:36:05 PM UTC-7, mscdex wrote:
>>
>> That's for Socket.connect(). Server.listen() uses 0.0.0.0 if no IP/ 
>> host is given after the port number.
>>
>
> Well, that's what I get for trying to post and put my kid down at the same 
> time.
>
> Did try leaving out the host and it only worked for IPv4. I don't have 
> access to a Windows machine to see if setting the host to '::' would work 
> the same way. Would appreciate it if someone did. If it does work then 
> think it should be included in the API? 
>

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