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<para>These options may be specified
more than once in which case incoming
- traffic on any of the sockets will trigger
- service activation, and all listed
- sockets will be passed to the service,
- regardless whether there is incoming
- traffic on them or not.</para>
-
- <para>If an IP address is used here, it
- is often desirable to listen on it
+ traffic on any of the sockets will
+ trigger service activation, and all
+ listed sockets will be passed to the
+ service, regardless whether there is
+ incoming traffic on them or not. If
+ the empty string is assigned to any of
+ these options, the list of addresses
+ to listen on is reset, all prior uses
+ of any of these options will have no
+ effect.</para>
+
+ <para>If an IP address is used here,
+ it is often desirable to listen on it
before the interface it is configured
on is up and running, and even
regardless whether it will be up and
- running ever at all. To deal with this it is
- recommended to set the
+ running ever at all. To deal with this
+ it is recommended to set the
<varname>FreeBind=</varname> option
described below.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>