Configure Ionic Address

I have a windows system with;

cordova 7.0.1
ionic 3.3.0
npm 3.10.8
gulp 3.9.1

I am trying to configure Ionic Serve to localhost and not the 0.0.0.0 default as it returns an Access Denied error. In a previous version I was able to add

"ank": "...",
"versionCheck": 1413143560174,
"ionicServeAddress": "localhost"

to the ionic config.file but that seems to not do anything. In addition i have tried doing ionic address to change it but that does not appear to be an option.

Is there a way to configure the default address without adding it in the ionic serve command?

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