sourceaddress/bindaddress overlap

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Dec 14 03:05:02 UTC 2007


"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> So...
>
> I have, after an astute observation by Dan Riley, discovered that the
> inn.conf parameters sourceaddress/sourceaddress6 apparently actually do
> affect innfeed (if innfeed.conf bindaddress/bindaddress6 are unset),
> despite the inn.conf manpage saying explicitly that they do not.
>
> Did somebody change this code recently?  I swear I've had a (bogus) 
> sourceaddress for ages that didn't cause any problems until recently.

I recently changed this code in CURRENT (well, "recently") and didn't
realize that documentation is there.  The generic network functions in
libinn now honor those settings.

I think it's a feature.  At least, it simplifies the code.

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