On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> wrote: >> I thought a firewall would block an attempt to bind to any routeable >> address, but not to localhost. So using INADDR_ANY would be rejected.
No. > My understanding is that firewalls block network traffic, not system calls. This is correct. Firewalls (real firewalls) can only act on incoming and outgoing traffic on the IP level. cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
