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Bind to localhost by default instead of local ip for security and privacy - #231

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Bind to localhost by default instead of local ip for security and privacy#231
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This pull request resolves issue #230 which is a security and privacy issue.

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Sounds like a good idea. Could add an option (--expose for example) that exposes it over the network as before so we can still support that use case?

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@mafintosh The existing --hostname option set to 0.0.0.0 would tell peerflix to listen on all IPv4 interfaces. Alternatively specific IPs or hostnames can be specified there also.

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