Purpose of DefaultAddress 127.0.0.1 at proftpd.conf

[FractalizeR]

Hello.

What is the purpose of having DefaultAddress 127.0.0.1 in ProFTPD? It sets default listeting address to localhost. What for?

[till]

For all FTP connactions that connect to localhost, for example for the webFTP Program in ISPConfig.

[FractalizeR]

That is strange, but I was unable to connect to FTP with Windows Commander until I commented that line....

[falko]

Are you using Fedora 9?

[FractalizeR]

No, CentOS 5.2.
I just saw this: http://www.proftpd.de/DefaultAddress.372.0.html and thought, that there is no need to set any DefaultAddress to have server listening on all server IPs especially if it has many of them...

[falko]

Not sure, but maybe chapter 19.2 from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora9-p6 applies to CentOS 5.2 as well.

[FractalizeR]

Yes, it seems so.