From 63590bd5a3380cf82f7f13d867f601b8cdee4f8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Otgaar?= <b.r.c.otgaar@students.uu.nl>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:09:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: change address based on binding, bind ports dont use
 `localhost`.

ref: N25B-205
---
 src/control_backend/agents/ri_communication_agent.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/control_backend/agents/ri_communication_agent.py b/src/control_backend/agents/ri_communication_agent.py
index dbf243a..e9374a6 100644
--- a/src/control_backend/agents/ri_communication_agent.py
+++ b/src/control_backend/agents/ri_communication_agent.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class RICommunicationAgent(Agent):
         logger.info("Setting up %s", self.jid)
         retries = 0
 
+
         # Let's try a certain amount of times before failing connection
         while retries < max_retries:
             # Bind request socket
@@ -105,7 +106,11 @@ class RICommunicationAgent(Agent):
                     id = port_data["id"]
                     port = port_data["port"]
                     bind = port_data["bind"]
-                    addr = f"tcp://localhost:{port}"
+
+                    if not bind:
+                        addr = f"tcp://localhost:{port}"
+                    else: 
+                        addr = f"tcp://*:{port}"
 
                     match id:
                         case "main":