From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T03:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Why would Webrick use 0.0.0.0:3000 instead of 127.0.0.1:3000 ?

Mine's always said it starts on 0.0.0.0 (I'm using normal Rails, not the 
Instant kind). I just assume its some sort of network-geek alias for 
localhost and go there instead. localhost:3000 works fine.

Devin

Curt Hibbs wrote:

>A guy who was working through my Rolling wit Ruby on Rails tutorial had this
>happen and posted it to the articles comments. I've never seen this
>before... does anyone know what could cause this? I copied his post below.
>
>Curt
>
>Subject: Problems using Instant Rails
>Author: juantar
>
>Text of message:
>I am using Instant Rails which comes with Rails 1.0, WEBrick 1.3.1 and Ruby
>1.8.2 and I ran the WEBrick server and it starts on http://0.0.0.0:3000 and
>not http://127.0.0.1:3000. However, when I tried to connect to
>http://0.0.0.0:3000 using my browser, a dialog pops up telling me that "the
>connection was refused". Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?.
>
>Thank you.
>
>  
>