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r70960 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 11:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows
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*address* is the address to be used by the bound socket or named pipe of the
listener object.
+ .. note::
+
+ If an address of '0.0.0.0' is used, the address will not be a connectable
+ end point on Windows. If you require a connectable end-point,
+ you should use '127.0.0.1'.
+
*family* is the type of socket (or named pipe) to use. This can be one of
the strings ``'AF_INET'`` (for a TCP socket), ``'AF_UNIX'`` (for a Unix
domain socket) or ``'AF_PIPE'`` (for a Windows named pipe). Of these only