William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 at 05:12PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> > I think it would be very easy for us to add an >> > address='all' >> > option, which would allow access from anywhere. >> > Would you like that? >> >> I sure would. I think most people who want to access the server remotely >> will want to access it from any address/hostname; I don't think there >> are many people who have multiple network interfaces and want the Sage >> server to listen on only one of them...and such people can probably >> figure out all this stuff themselves. :) >> >> Another consideration is that I think it's easier to have the server >> listen to everything and use a firewall to selectively block access. I >> think firewalls, in general, are easier to configure if one wants to >> restrict address to a certain block of addresses, etc. >> > > +1 I'm ok with this.
+1 for making an address='all' option > What do people think. It would be easy to make this the default. > -1 for making the 'all' option default. I think the default should be localhost to prevent opening up to the world by default, which is in general a bad idea. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
