On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. >
In sage-3.0 address='' will listen on all interfaces. The *default* will be localhost only. But if one just writes notebook(address="") then all interfaces will be listened too. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
