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Description of problem: bitlbee doesnt listen on all interfaces only the loopback one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start bitlbee 2. connect to bitlbee from another machine 3. connection fails Actual results: connection fails Expected results: that connection works Additional info: if I change the service file it works: ExecStart=/usr/sbin/bitlbee -D -n -i 0.0.0.0 according to bitlbee docs listening on all interfaces is default. as it is now bitlbee is only usable on localhost. Thats an important usecase, but connecting from other machines is also important.
This is actually intentional. For normal users we don't want to create a security risk of opening yet another port on their system, and if you are brave enough to run bitlbee as a publicly accessible (or LAN-accessible for that matter) so you are ready to deal with firewalls etc., then you should be smart enough to make a simple change to the service file.