[PULL REQUEST] Nolisten patch

[wumpus]

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11

With the current client it is impossible to start mulitple instances of bitcoin on one system, as they compete for the listen port. This patch adds a command line option to not accept bitcoin connection from outside.

This can be useful in some cases:

• Testing e-commerce software on the testnet with multiple clients on one machine (akin to paypal sandbox testing)
• When multiple users on one shared server want to run the bitcoin client
• As a primitive security measure

Of course it would be even better to specify a port to listen on on the command line, but as I understood the current protocol has no support for alternative ports, so this would be useless at this stage.

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[Gavin Andresen]

Pulled into the git integration repository.

[MoneyTree]

Is there any indication of a time frame when this will be available in the standard windows binary? I'm just dying to try out this feature as I need it to create multiple bitcoin services on one machine.

Thanks in advance!

[dsg]

Gavin, is this still part of your tree?

It seems your 'master' branch no longer exists and this isn't part of 'svn'. Does one of the other branches have it?

[tcatm]

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ is the integration branch and the patch is included.