2009/6/9 Austin English <[email protected]>: > ping (in cmd.exe): > D:\appinstall>ping 0.0.0.0 > > Pinging 0.0.0.0 with 32 bytes of data: > > Destination specified is invalid. > Destination specified is invalid. > Destination specified is invalid. > Destination specified is invalid. > > Ping statistics for 0.0.0.0: > Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), > > Wine: > Putty -> 0.0.0.0 route to localhost, login succeeds (Not sure if it's > routing to localhost or 127.0.0.1) > > FWIW, Ubuntu: > ssh -> 0.0.0.0: routes to localhost, where I've got sshd running, connects > fine. > ping -> 0.0.0.0 routes to 127.0.0.1, succeeds
This doesn't look right to me, but it also happens on my Debian box. Looks like that's how Linux works. > Seems to me to be a bug, i.e., Wine shouldn't be able to use 0.0.0.0. > It seems that we're simply passing this on to the host os, which is > then routing it back to localhost. Perhaps we need to catch 0.0.0.0 as > a special case and refuse? I'm not sure Wine should be a special case if it's not breaking apps.
