On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:29:00PM +0000, Tom Evans wrote: > *: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?
Not every address in the world, but every port 80 request that it sees on its ethernet connection. It is possible that the Linux box and the Windblows box could be connected to a hub, instead of a switch. Then the ethernet ports on both computers would "see" IP traffic meant for each other. To me it would be safer not to use the wildcard. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com /~\ The ASCII [I've been to Earth. I know where it is. ] \ / Ribbon Campaign [And I'm gonna take us there. Starbuck 3/25/07] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
