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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Robert Watson wrote:

> This seems like security to me -- the binding issue is especially relevant
> to firewall hosts (multi-homed).

Ever since I learned how the sockets API supports binding to a specific
interface, I've wanted ways to use this in inet software.  As it is, I'm
using tcp_wrappers to get equivalent functionality, but this would
certainly be more elegant.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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