On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mike Brown <br...@mrvideo.vidiot.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:11:26PM +0000, Tom Evans wrote: >> Apache doesn't control how packets get routed to your computer, it >> only controls what it does when they arrive. If you listen on *:80 or >> 192.168.1.2:80, then anything that can route packets to that >> server/port will communicate with apache. > > IMHO, it is better to set the listen to the IP address of the server apache > is running on, to keep it from trying to respond to requests to a different > IP on the same subnet. > > If, for example, the Linux box was also running apache, as I understand it, > if the listen was set for all IPs, then it would try and respond to requests > meant for the Linux server. > > MB
Wow, no, you don't understand it. *:80 means "listen on on all addresses on all interfaces THIS BOX has", not "respond to every IP address in the world". Furthermore, how would the 'request meant for the linux server' be routed to the windows box? Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
