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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2014-09-11 15:05:25 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2014-10-13 14:01:51 +0100
commiteca46a23416202d635c3812146b91c9a04697b9f (patch)
tree5894425f6ef07f974304525b46f6e708fedb7451
parentc7b7d811c8a4ffa5396bb4865a78a3a6baf20d9d (diff)
downloaddbus-eca46a23416202d635c3812146b91c9a04697b9f.tar.gz
Do not claim that '*' resolves to INADDR_ANY on all OSs
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72296
-rw-r--r--doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in
index cd7942c3..78f0fd08 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in
+++ b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in
@@ -396,12 +396,14 @@ DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is set.</para>
used in a listenable address to configure the interface on which
the server will listen: either the hostname is the IP address of
one of the local machine's interfaces (most commonly 127.0.0.1),
-or a DNS name that resolves to one of those IP addresses, or '*'
-to listen on all interfaces simultaneously. If not specified,
+a DNS name that resolves to one of those IP addresses, '0.0.0.0'
+to listen on all IPv4 interfaces simultaneously, or '::'
+to listen on all IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces simultaneously (if supported
+by the OS). If not specified,
the default is the same value as "host".</para>
-<para>Example: &lt;listen&gt;tcp:host=localhost,bind=*,port=0&lt;/listen&gt;</para>
+<para>Example: &lt;listen&gt;tcp:host=localhost,bind=0.0.0.0,port=0&lt;/listen&gt;</para>
<itemizedlist remap='TP'>