sockets: bind to external interface

Mon Apr 25 16:14:51 EDT 2011

On 2011年4月26日 05:49:07 +1000, Chris Angelico
 <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
: You can run 'ifconfig' without being root, so there must be a way. At
: very worst, parse ifconfig's output.

Of course, but I am not sure that's simpler than the manual solution.
Especially since there is more than one version of ifconfig ...
: The way you talk of "the" external interface, I'm assuming this
: computer has only one. Is there a reason for not simply binding to
: INADDR_ANY aka 0.0.0.0?

Ah. That's what I really wanted. Thanks a lot. I wonder why that
was not mentioned in the tutorial I used ...
-- 
:-- Hans Georg