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Re: ASYNC SOCKETS Kat

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 10, 2002
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On 10 May 2002, at 19:20, Martin Stachon wrote:

> 
> 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)

Ok, for some people, 0.0.0.0 causes problems, i can't use it, but i can use 
127.0.0.1

Kat