Re: Limit Single Instance

"Gordon Beaton" <not@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:43e057a1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:33:16 -0000, Allan Bruce wrote:
>> I had thought of something similar - my only worry is if a firewall does
>> anything to interfere with this?
>
> If you are running a firewall on the host where the application runs,
> shouldn't it allow connections to itself?
>
> /gordon
>

I guess I will find out - but I thought some firewalls/antispyware/antivirus 
programs didnt like opening up listening sockets as this was a security 
risk...

Allan


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