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Can somebody help me understand the 0.0.0.0 address in docker? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by Rafa130397@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Basically, I have this doubt, I have some self hosted services in docker where I add the ports like this:
host_port:container_port, so I don't specify the interface, so by default, it is 0.0.0.0.

Somebody recently told me that this is dangerous and that I expose my services to the public internet by doing this. I don't want to do that since I am the only one accessing them so I just use a vpn to access them. So, to try this out, I typed in my browser my public ip alongside the host port I used for one of my services but I cannot access it. This has me puzzled. How's the deal? Am I exposing it? Should I change it?

What are your thoughts? Thanks!

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[–] getr00taccess@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

0.0.0.0 means it binds to every available address on your docker host. If your host has a directly available public IP, then i can understand the concern.

if your box is behind your network firewall, then you would have to port forward to have the service reachable from the internet.

You’re welcome to bind to a specific IP on your host, I do this over plain 0.0.0.0. Looks cleaner that way IMO.

i use static IPs and it’s been fine for me for months-years now.

But why do you have UPnP enabled?