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TK Soh wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> and pointing Firefox at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://0.0.0.0:8000/">http://0.0.0.0:8000/</a> I get a "Unable to connect"
on my WinXP.
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I am having this problem, too. </pre>
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Right, I was wrong, it seems to be platform dependent.<br>
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<pre wrap="">On one hand, it gives the url with
hostname, but the IP is 0.0.0.0, which does not correspond to the said
hostname.
It's just confusing.
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Yes, but that boils down to networking is confusing in general. Network
interfaces have IP numbers, and IP numbers have DNS names. A machine
has one hostname which might match one of the DNS names, but that can't
be relied on. A hostname is really only what a machine calls itself,
and it has nothing to do with the rest of the world. Listening on
0.0.0.0 listens on all the IP numbers a host has, and in some way it is
thus the closest you get to the "hostname".<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think the [Mercurial] users should be the focus here. We can't
expect every user to posses in-depth knowledge in networking. Simply
saying 0.0.0.0 is a standard notation would be a cop-out.
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Agreed. But this isn't MS. Mercurial is a tool in the unix tradition.
It is important have focus on users, but it is even more important to
tell them the truth, let them know what is going on, and thus educate
them. So I think that first telling exactly what is going on, and then
giving the friendly almost-but-not-completely-reliable hint would
satisfy all needs.<br>
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/Mads<br>
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