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		afiori 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers The hosts file is enough, what is needed is a way to assign an ip address to a process/service like you can with port numbers.

necovek 26 days ago [–]

You can trivially have a server process bind a listening socket to eg. 127.4.3.19.

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