At 09:45 AM 8/9/02 -0500, G. Scott Jones wrote: >From: "Brian Hawley" > > My computer has several IP channels > > available to it: The ethernet card, > > localhost, and a couple VMware virtual > > networks. If I am setting up a > > server, how do I bind a listen port to just > > one or some of them, not all? > > I would like to set up local services that > > I would prefer not to be > > accessible to the outside world. I haven't > > found anything like this in > > the docs - they all seem to assume that > > all network channels are alike.
... >Hi, Brian, > >I probably have more questions than answers, because I believe that the best >answer will depend on certain information. > >The implied risk of which I suspect that you are concerned is the risk of >external Internet access to your proposed REBOL server. [ Huge amounts of useful information snipped :) ] I thank you for all of this information, but I've already gone through these steps. I do know about networking, I just forget the jargon terms for things :) >The third but less desirable option is hooking your REBOL server >to the localhost address (127.0.0.1). Actually, that is exactly one of the things that I want to do. >Once your development machine is on a non-Internet-routable address, like >the 192.168.x.x range, then you can hook your server to a port for >listening, as seen at > >http://www.reboltech.com/library/html/rebserver.html > >You should be able to specify the actual IP that you wish to use on your >machine, like: >server-port: open/lines tcp://192.168.0.1:4321 You should, but what you have just done is open a client port. A server port is opened from specs like tcp://:4321 . You are not given the opportunity to specify which of your server IPs to bind to, or if you are I am asking would like to know how. Say I have a 2k machine, with one NIC, running VMware. I would then have 4 IPs for that machine, each on a different subnet. This info is typical for a computer behind a NAT firewall. localhost 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 (the NIC) 192.168.123.100 255.255.255.0 (VMware host-only net) 192.168.17.1 255.255.255.0 (VMware internal NAT) 192.168.119.1 255.255.255.0 I would like to use something like this: open/custom tcp://:4321 [ips [128.0.0.1 192.168.17.1]] or perhaps even use the names specified when you get-modes port 'interfaces It should be possible, but I don't know the exact syntax. >If your machine is directly addressable to the Internet, but you have a fire >wall installed, then in theory you only need to set the firewall to filter >out any external access to the desired port. Most internal firewall software restricts on a program basis, not per-script. If you enable a port for one REBOL script you have enabled it for all of them. This is not my problem, though. I just want to set up local servers to handle non-REBOL standard protocols for client programs written in other languages. Seems simple enough to me... At 05:26 PM 8/9/02 +0200, Petr Krenzelok wrote: >So once again, > >port: open tcp://:9005 >probe get-modes port 'interfaces ... >Is that what you wanted? No. I found that in the docs. What I want is to bind listen ports to only a subset of the IPs available on my machine. "Get" access hasn't helped me much there, I'm afraid :( Any ideas? Brian Hawley -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
