On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mike Brown <brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yes. > Then the ethernet ports on both computers > would "see" IP traffic meant for each other. No. > > To me it would be safer not to use the wildcard. > > MB You are free to do as you see fit. "Listen *:80" means "listen to port 80 on all interfaces configured on this computer". If that's what is wanted, and it commonly is, it is safe. 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-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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