Originally Posted by
mixture
What's the point of that ? Surely 127.0.0.1 would be the correct IP !
I remember some theological discussion about 0.0.0.0 vs 127.0.0.1 a couple of years ago, but forget the conclusion; I think it was that 0.0.0.0 is an invalid destination address so smart programs might not even try to connect, whereas 127.0.0.1 is valid so you'd have to wait for any program to try to connect and fail.
However, every program I've tried today still tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 if you give it 0.0.0.0.