[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Bindip-Patch

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:28:24PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:03:08PM +0100, Patrick Duchstein wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have written a small patch which allows civserver to bind on a
> > specified IP only. It would be great if somebody could put this into
> > CVS, since I am probably not the only person who needs it. The patch
> > succeeds against current CVS.
> > 
> > The new commandline option is --bindip <ip>; if not given, civserver
> > still binds on all IPs per default .
> 
> In what cases is this useful? I have seen this for other programs but
> didn't used it. Is it for security?

This is very useful for security, think you're running singl player on
one computer connected, and you have no firewall. I wonder why this hasn't
been fixed til now.

Also with coming client server integration very useful.

Christian

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