FYI: Win7 and values of "SABnzbd Host"

[sander]

I found this 'interesting', so I decided to share it in this forum:

SABnzbd 0.6.5 running (as a service) on Windows 7. Filling out "SABnzbd Host" with different values gives very different behaviour:


Filling out "::" results in SABnzbd listening to localhost and the IPv6 address, not the IPv4 address. And netstat says:

C:\Downloads>netstat -aon | find /i "listening" | find "8080"
  TCP    [::]:8080              [::]:0                LISTENING      4388


Filling out "0.0.0.0" results in SABnzbd listening to localhost and the IPv4 address, not the IPv6 address. And netstat says:


C:\Downloads>netstat -aon | find /i "listening" | find "8080"
  TCP    0.0.0.0:8080          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      5824



Filling out nothing results in SABnzbd listening to the strange IPv4 address http://192.168.40.1 (caused by VMware), not to localhost nor the IPv6 address, nor the normal WLAN IPv4 address (192.168.1.33). And netstat says:


C:\Downloads>netstat -aon | find /i "listening" | find "8080"
  TCP    192.168.40.1:8080      0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      712

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AFAIK, filling out "::" on Linux works for localhost, IPv4 and IPv6.