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Re: [gpsd-users] Binding gpsd to a specific ip address/port only?
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: [gpsd-users] Binding gpsd to a specific ip address/port only? |
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Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:57:02 -0700 |
Yo Tor!
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:39:33 +0200
Tor Rune Skoglund <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am I right in concluding that gpsd by itself cannot be limited to
> bind to specific ip addresses (e.g. similar to apache's Listen
> <ipaddress> directive and sshd's ListenAddress <ipaddress:port>), but
> always grabs all ips when making it available for network access ?
Yeah. This has been annoying people for a while...
> What is the correct procedure to suggest a patch or to add this
> feature?
Post a patch on this list, or make a Merge Request on GitLab.
Past time to get this fixed, so patches welcome. I would guess
a new command line option for what IPs to bind to.
> (My use case is two-fold for this: Firstly; to limit the access to
> gpsd on specific LAN(s) or interface(s) only - could have used
> iptables, or course, but that creates an unwanted additional
> management step. Secondly, we use a container-based systems which
> disallows the use of the same port number in the container if the
> host binds to 0.0.0.0 . So in this latter case we just want to bind
> gpsd to the host's LAN address.)
Good reasons.
RGDS
GARY
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