"James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> writes: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Nehemiah Dacres <vivacar...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Is ther an easy way to get the resolved ip address of the machine a >> script is running on? socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname) has >> only returned the ip address of my loop back interface ... not very >> usefull. > > That's because your /etc/hosts resolves your hostname to 127.0.0.1 :)
This just illustrates the real problem with the OP's question. The idea of `/the/ ... ip address of the machine' is simply ill-formed. An Internet host has at least two IP addresses -- one of them is 127.0.0.1 -- and may have many more. The laptop I'm typing on right now has three; the server next door has four. Network interfaces may have multiple addresses associated with them (and hosts using the weak end-system model consider the addresses as referring to the host in general rather than a specific interface anyway), and several interfaces might have the same address. Sorry. Life's more complicated than you'd like it to be. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
