can-bind-to-host
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Utility package to see if the node process can bind to the host or listen on a port. Can be used for checking if a host resolves to localhost.
can-bind-to-host serves to definitively tell if a host (hostname or IP address) can be bound to. This is useful to determining if the given host is equivalent to localhost.
This package was written to replace the abandonned is-localhost-ip package.
Unlike is-localhost-ip which uses regular expressions to determine if an IP is local and can mislead by unusual network configurations, this package can definitively rule out any host which is not local.
For similar reasons as above, this package can return false negatives in case of using this package under an extremely restricted user. As long as the process uses this package can bind to a local port, it will be accurate.
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Utility package to see if the node process can bind to the host or listen on a port. Can be used for checking if a host resolves to localhost.
The npm package can-bind-to-host receives a total of 153,795 weekly downloads. As such, can-bind-to-host popularity was classified as popular.
We found that can-bind-to-host demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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