I wanted to know the difference between these two states, I just did a netstat -anob on my 2008 R2 testing machine.

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One is listening to a specific IP address (interface) while the 0.0.0.0 is listening to all interfaces (loopback, a local address, public address...any address the machine has, it's listening to.)

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That makes sense, thanks a lot! – Ian Sep 18 '11 at 11:29
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