Andreas Raab wrote:
> The listening socket is always bound to the local network address
> (how could it be otherwise?)
No, a socket is always bound to a network interface (how could it be
otherwise?). Each network interface has its own IP address. 127.0.0.1
is the local loop-back interface, while each network adapter has a
different IP. If I bind a socket to 127.0.0.1, it will not be
reachable from the outside. This is a Good Thing, like for a printer
demon, font server etc. (*)
Squeak does unfortunately not support this. In the plain VM, a
listening socket is always bound to _all_ network interfaces. I think
there have been hacks to bind to specific interfaces, but I do not
remember where exactly I saw this.