From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:411f5aa0.43649144{at}216.144.1.254...

> I'm not sure how an app would bind to (say) 127.0.0.2 - I suppose it might
> just be the normal stuff when an app specifies the IP it wants to use,
> rather than "any ip". Anyway, then the app (apparently)
tries to open a
> connection to some other app that is listening on some other IP. Pretty
> strange.

The app is the same but it talks to different parts of itself using
127.x.x.x addresses. For example NTmail smtp service talks to NTmail www
service and ldap service and mysql service using loopback addresses because
that way the ldap/mysql services are not accessible from the outside world.

Geo.

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