1. Re: ASYNC SOCKETS Kat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: ASYNC SOCKETS Kat
> On 10 May 2002, at 14:09, Martin Stachon wrote:
>
> >
> > Kat wrote:
> > > i have 1,660 advertiser domains pointed to 127.0.0.1
> >
> > But if you launch a webserver on your machine, all the requestes
> > to the ad.* domains will go to it. Isn't 0.0.0.0 better (always invalid) ?
>
> No. You want a valid ip#, so the machine doesn't wait on it. If you point at
> 127.0.0.1 the OS immeadiately returns a "no http server here" and you get a
> blank spot where the ad would be. If you put a httpd on your machine, and
> provide a gif, the webpage will display your gif instead of the ad.
Now I see "The IP address of 0.0.0.0 is used for the default network."
What does it mean ?
I use WebWasher for ad filtering anyway :P
Martin
