Re: Multi-homed interface and Oracle listener

In comp.sys.hp.hpux Jeff Traigle <traigle_at_si.umich.edu> wrote:
> tcp 0 0 *.1521 *.* LISTEN

> As Rick suspected, it looks like the listener is watching on any address
> configured on the system.

Yup. That "*" means that the application bound to the wildcard IP address, aka INADDR_ANY. If you were to verbosely tusc trace the startup, you would see the call to bind() with that parm.

rick jones

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