On 22 Aug, 12:06, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > > It would not surprise me if the order was related to the order a scan of > the system interfaces yields information, and I would imagine that may > be influenced by the order in which the interfaces were initialised. > > So getting the LAN first may merely be fortuitous. > I wouldn't rely on it, especially if interfaces come and go. >
We did try to disable/enable the interfaces in different orders, but always got the same return order from gethostbyname_ex(). So it looked pretty stable (on that specific OS). There's been some testing on Linux as well, but since this should be used in a general cross platform tool we wanted to check the exact behaviour of the method. > What if you queried your routing table instead? Usually there's just one > default route, and hopefully it would be configured to use the "best" > interface. > Hmm... perhaps. How would you do that? /Tomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
