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From: "Rob Sterenborg" <rob@sterenborg.info>
Subject: Re: opening connection for Tomcat
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:23:49 +0200
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> >>Ok, I've fixed the problem: it seems that the address 0.0.0.0 is no
good.
> >
> >
> > You are certainly very unlikely to receive packets from that address, as
it
> > does not exist.
>
> Well, I'm not a firewall guru, but I think that 0.0.0.0 address is often
> used to indicate "every address", isn't it?

Neither am I ;o). I overlooked that one too.

0.0.0.0 = 0.0.0.0/32. 0.0.0.0 as a host does not exist.
What you meant is 0.0.0.0/0, which is the same as not specifying it.


Gr,
Rob