socket send help

[James Mills]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Bryan Olson <fakeaddress at nowhere.org> wrote:
>> I thought a firewall would block an attempt to bind to any routeable
>> address, but not to localhost. So using INADDR_ANY would be rejected.

No.

> My understanding is that firewalls block network traffic, not system calls.

This is correct. Firewalls (real firewalls) can only act on incoming
and outgoing traffic on the IP level.

cheers
James