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-rw-r--r--src/inspsocket.cpp8
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diff --git a/src/inspsocket.cpp b/src/inspsocket.cpp
index 1989e43b1..012fc38de 100644
--- a/src/inspsocket.cpp
+++ b/src/inspsocket.cpp
@@ -157,6 +157,14 @@ bool InspSocket::DoResolve()
return true;
}
+/* Most irc servers require you to specify the ip you want to bind to.
+ * If you dont specify an IP, they rather dumbly bind to the first IP
+ * of the box (e.g. INADDR_ANY). In InspIRCd, we scan thought the IP
+ * addresses we've bound server ports to, and we try and bind our outbound
+ * connections to the first usable non-loopback and non-any IP we find.
+ * This is easier to configure when you have a lot of links and a lot
+ * of servers to configure.
+ */
bool InspSocket::BindAddr()
{
insp_inaddr n;