On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, John Ferlito wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:27:48PM +1100, Conrad Parker wrote:
> > TCP services listen to a TCP port; there is only one "instance" of
> > TCP on a system, so you can't have two daemons each listening on "its
> > own IP" but on the same port. There is only one port 110 on the system
> > as far as TCP is concerned (and similarly, there is a port 110 for UDP).
> > A really good tutorial on this is RFC 1180 (eg. http://RF.Cx/rfc1180.html).
>
> I'd like to disagree. When you bind a socket you bind to both an
> IP address and a port. So you can have two programs listening to the
> same port on differnet ip addresses.
Sadly, misinformation on lists gets archived, then indexed by google or some
other mechanism and then thousands of newbies are misinformed during the
uptake of their learning curve.
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