Merovingian: allow binds to given ip/interface #2407
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Date: 2005-05-29 04:21:33 +0200
From: @grobian
To: Merovingian devs <>
Version: -- development
CC: alexo15, ashishk, @hannesmuehleisen, @PedroTadim, shady.shen.sh
Last updated: 2019-07-29 15:05:13 +0200
Comment 13421
Date: 2005-05-29 16:21:33 +0200
From: @grobian
It would be nice if it were possible to let Mapi, SQL
server and XQuery server bind to another address than
127.0.0.1. In many cases 127.0.0.1 is too restrictive
to be of any use, and the other extreme (0.0.0.0) far
too wide. It would be nice if these connections could
be bound to an interface or ipaddress.
Comment 13422
Date: 2006-07-23 11:16:04 +0200
From: @mlkersten
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Is this feature request still relevant?
Comment 13423
Date: 2006-07-23 16:15:33 +0200
From: @grobian
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yes, because we only do local or any. We should have a
config option that defines to with interface or IP to bind.
Comment 13424
Date: 2007-11-10 17:40:47 +0100
From: @grobian
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In fact this is still an issue. Merovingian just suffers from the same problem, either all or just local.
Comment 13425
Date: 2010-05-04 09:32:09 +0200
From: Pseudo user for Sourceforge import <>
This bug was previously known as tracker item 1210805 at http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1210805
Comment 13987
Date: 2010-05-04 13:05:17 +0200
From: @grobian
Since M5 is wrapped by Merovingian, this really only is an issue for Merovingian.
Comment 17771
Date: 2012-10-09 14:03:35 +0200
From: @grobian
*** Bug #3156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17776
Date: 2012-10-09 17:39:25 +0200
From: Ashish Kumar Singh <>
is there any way as of now to make MonetDB listen on localhost only on linux platforms ? from description of this ticket I am guessing there might be a way??
Comment 17777
Date: 2012-10-09 17:42:28 +0200
From: @grobian
No, monetdbd can only bind to all interfaces. Unless you hack its sources (should be relatively easy, see connections.c). It needs code/options to define how to listen on what.
From your bug description, I think perhaps a simpler route, which switches on an ip/hostname (and thus allows only binding to 1 IP or all via 0.0.0.0) would already provide a start.
Comment 17778
Date: 2012-10-09 17:45:40 +0200
From: Ashish Kumar Singh <>
Thanks for reply , I will have a look.
But it would be nice to have it configurable OTB by monetdb, what do you think?
Regards,
Ashish
Comment 17779
Date: 2012-10-09 18:27:01 +0200
From: @grobian
it would be a monetdbd property, and a nice to have, indeed
Comment 21753
Date: 2016-01-28 09:44:31 +0100
From: @hannesmuehleisen
Indeed this is still an issue. Monetdbd by defaults listens on all interfaces. The default should be that it only listens on localhost, with an option to listen to another or all interfaces. Given the well-known default admin user/pass combination, this is a potentially security risk and should be avoided.
Comment 21755
Date: 2016-01-28 12:36:11 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>
Changeset 0299a8888992 made by Hannes Muehleisen hannes@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.
For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=0299a8888992
Changeset description:
Comment 22159
Date: 2016-05-23 10:57:29 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender
Feature has been implemented in the Jun2016 branch.
Comment 26054
Date: 2018-01-02 06:39:51 +0100
From: shady.shen.sh
In windows environment, server is not started with monetdbd and thus this fix is not valid. listenaddr parameter doesn't take effect and the server always listen to 127.0.0.1, which doesn't work in most cases.
Please help fix the issue for windows environment.
Thanks and Best Regards
Shady
Comment 26656
Date: 2018-10-25 18:31:09 +0200
From: Alex Ossipov <>
This is also an issue on Linux configured with ipv6 only.
Per documentation:
listenaddr
This property specifies an address that is allowed to connect to the server. The user can specify one IP(v6) address, or use the 0.0.0.0 notation to allow connections from everywhere. Defaults to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Attempt to set to ipv6 fails with address not recognized.
Comment 27191
Date: 2019-07-29 15:05:13 +0200
From: @PedroTadim
In default branch is now possible to bind to IPv6 addresses. However binding to a specified interface is not possible yet.
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