From: Derek Chesterfield <dez@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T03:31:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Why would Webrick use 0.0.0.0:3000 instead of 127.0.0.1:3000 ?

It doesn't really mean it is listening on 0.0.0.0 - this actually  
means that it is listening on any interface on the computer,  
including 127.0.0.1 and any other IP addresses.

Your reader should connect to http://127.0.0.1:3000.

On 17 Dec 2005, at 17:57, 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?.