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Re: ASYNC SOCKETS Kat

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> May 10, 2002
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Kat wrote:
> 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.

As it seems to me, OS (Win98) doesn't wait for 0.0.0.0, but immediately refuses
all connections to it (tested with ping,telnet,MSIE)

    Martin