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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:18:05 +0200, Thomas Rachel
<nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-> wrote:
: That is right, but I cannot see where he mentions the "direction" of the
: socket. My fist thought was that he tries to have a server socket...

Quite right. I thought it was implied by the need to bind
Sorry for the lack of detail.

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:-- Hans Georg

Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> Is there a simple way to find the external interface and bind a
> socket to it, when the hostname returned by socket.gethostname()
> maps to localhost?
>
> What seems to be the standard ubuntu configuration lists the local
> hostname with 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts. (I checked this on two ubuntu
> boxen, on only one of which I am root.) Thus, the standard solution
> of binding to whatever socket.gethostname() returns does not work.
>
> Has anyone found a simple solution that can be administered without
> root privileges? I mean simpler than passing the ip address
> manually
>
> TIA
>
Hi,

Use the address 0.0.0.0

JM