[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Bindip-Patch

[Patrick Duchstein <duchstei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:28:24 +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?
You need it for machines with multiple IPs, which is a common
configuration. I want to permanently run civserver on a server which owns
16 (public) IPs, and only one of them is supposed to accept connections
from civclient. Otherwise, one could connect to the same civserver on all
IPs.

Patrick