From: Fabian Keil Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:40:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: In the listen-address description, be more specific X-Git-Tag: v_3_0_13~119 X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee8c5375bb792166036b8593e56163c8060cfef2;p=privoxy.git In the listen-address description, be more specific about the requested IP version. --- diff --git a/doc/source/p-config.sgml b/doc/source/p-config.sgml index 47b301d2..fdec02bb 100644 --- a/doc/source/p-config.sgml +++ b/doc/source/p-config.sgml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Purpose : Used with other docs and files only. - $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.45 2009/04/17 11:30:55 fabiankeil Exp $ + $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.46 2009/04/17 11:31:48 fabiankeil Exp $ Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/ See LICENSE. @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Sample Configuration File for Privoxy v&p-version; - $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.45 2009/04/17 11:30:55 fabiankeil Exp $ + $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.46 2009/04/17 11:31:48 fabiankeil Exp $ Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/ @@ -1235,10 +1235,12 @@ actionsfile If you leave out the IP address, Privoxy will - bind to all interfaces (addresses) on your machine and may become reachable + bind to all IPv4 interfaces (addresses) on your machine and may become reachable from the Internet. In that case, consider using access control lists (ACL's, see below), and/or - a firewall. + a firewall. If the hostname is localhost, Privoxy + will explicitly try to bind to an IPv4 address. For other hostnames it depends + on the operating system which IP version will be used. If you open Privoxy to untrusted users, you will