diff --git a/docs/topics/telnetconsole.rst b/docs/topics/telnetconsole.rst
index 7677ec462..267e6e1d8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/telnetconsole.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/telnetconsole.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ dynamically assigned port is used.
 TELNETCONSOLE_HOST
 ------------------
 
-Default: ``'0.0.0.0'``
+Default: ``'127.0.0.1'``
 
 The interface the telnet console should listen on
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/webservice.rst b/docs/topics/webservice.rst
index 6c4c8ac8b..ce85b5e48 100644
--- a/docs/topics/webservice.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/webservice.rst
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ dynamically assigned port is used.
 WEBSERVICE_HOST
 ---------------
 
-Default: ``'0.0.0.0'``
+Default: ``'127.0.0.1'``
 
 The interface the web service should listen on
 
diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index 17957e5e4..d99d65e96 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ USER_AGENT = 'Scrapy/%s (+http://scrapy.org)' % import_module('scrapy').__versio
 
 TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = 1
 TELNETCONSOLE_PORT = [6023, 6073]
-TELNETCONSOLE_HOST = '0.0.0.0'
+TELNETCONSOLE_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
 
 WEBSERVICE_ENABLED = True
 WEBSERVICE_LOGFILE = None
 WEBSERVICE_PORT = [6080, 7030]
-WEBSERVICE_HOST = '0.0.0.0'
+WEBSERVICE_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
 WEBSERVICE_RESOURCES = {}
 WEBSERVICE_RESOURCES_BASE = {
     'scrapy.contrib.webservice.crawler.CrawlerResource': 1,