On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:26:14 +0900, Aredridel <aredridel / nbtsc.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > My DOS window displays:
> > > => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
> > >
> > > This address doesn't come up in my browser.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > I saw that too, and found it to be a bit odd.  The app did work on
> > 127.0.0.1 as expected tho'.  127.0.0.1 is the IP for 'localhost' which
> > can be thought of as "this machine" if that helps any.
> 
> The 0.0.0.0 means "any available IPs on this machine" -- so it binds to
> 127.0.0.1, and whatever other IPs you have up.
> 
> Odd, but that's how the BSD socket code started it.

Well, that's one less item on the list of "things I do not know".  Thx much.
'course, the list is still quite long...

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)