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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:19:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: daemon to listen on localhost only?
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On May 10, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Is there a way to tell a daemon to listen only to the localhost  
> without using a firewall?

If the daemon has an option to listen on a specific IP address, yes;  
otherwise, no.

-- 
-Chuck