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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by rob_au (Abbot) on Nov 27, 2001 at 09:40 UTC
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The reason that this code is returning 127.0.0.1 is that you are requesting the resolution of the name localhost, which should always be your loopback adapter address - If you want it to resolve your external IP address, you should pass the external hostname you have been assigned. If this is dynamic in nature then you may want to look at other solutions such as Net::Pcap which allow network interfaces to be iterated.
Update #1 - I did a bit of digging on a hunch and if you have a known external address that you can connect to, you could make a socket connection to it and then call perlfunc:getsockname on the socket handle (or sockname if you use IO::Socket) to return the packed address of this end of the socket. eg.
use Socket;
$mysockaddr = getsockname(SOCK);
($port, $myaddr) = sockaddr_in($mysockaddr);
printf "Connected from %s [%s]\n",
scalar gethostbyaddr($myaddr, AF_INET),
inet_ntoa($myaddr);
Update #2 - And the prize goes to converter for the link to IO::Interface in this post
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by converter (Priest) on Nov 27, 2001 at 10:39 UTC
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by dws (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2001 at 10:43 UTC
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I want to get the correct IP address (and if possible, hostname) for my computer ... how do I get my real IP (which is currently 206.62.155.15)?
Since you say "currently", I'm going to assume that your address is assigned dynamically by your ISP/DSL/Cable provider.
The way I attack this problem is by periodically pinging a hidden CGI on my external web site. The CGI records the REMOTE_ADDR that pinged it, and responds with that REMOTE_ADDR. Then, from work, I can hit another hidden page on my site that tells me how recently my home machine reported in, and what IP address it used. (My DSL provider will drop the link after a few minutes of inactivity.) If the connection is still up, I can then reach it from the outside world.
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by Dr. Mu (Hermit) on Nov 27, 2001 at 11:54 UTC
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I've used Net::Domain for this very purpose, and so far it's worked okay for me on single-interface boxes. And that's really the only time such a "Who am I?" question makes any sense, because IPs are not attached to computers but to interfaces. A computer acting as a gateway between two networks, for example, will have two interfaces and, hence, two associated IP addresses. Which one is the "computer's IP address"? Well, the question just doesn't make sense. And I don't know what Net::Domain would do in such a case, because I haven't tried it. | [reply] |
(tye)Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by tye (Sage) on Nov 27, 2001 at 11:12 UTC
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This question gets asked quite a bit. You'd think there would be a better answer by now, eh?
Well, the reason that I don't think there is a really great answer is that, eventually, after lots of wrangling, 95% of the time the reason that this information was requested in the first place was due to a misunderstanding of how TCP/IP works, or something similar.
Asking for "your own" IP address is pretty much guaranteed to give you a "solution" that doesn't work in quite a few situations.
So you might want to tell us why you want this because most of the time there is a better solution that doesn't involve solving this particular problem. (:
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tye
(but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by IlyaM (Parson) on Nov 27, 2001 at 09:41 UTC
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localhost should always resolve to 127.0.0.1. If it doesn't you have misconfigured computer.
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by blakem (Monsignor) on Nov 27, 2001 at 13:16 UTC
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You've gotten lots of perl solutions, so let me offer a non-perl one. If you have GNU hostname on your machine1, use the -i option to get the machines IP address.
$ hostname -i
63.150.14.148
1 any flavor of linux or other machine with the standard set of GNU tools installed.
-Blake
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by kwoff (Friar) on Nov 27, 2001 at 09:49 UTC
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You can use Net::hostent gethost() to get $h->name,
which would be the outside name (not localhost),
then use gethost() again on that outside name
and the address is in inet_ntoa($h->addr).
Look at `perldoc Net::hostent`.
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Nifty idea, but the problem with this approach is that you still need to know the world-resolvable name of the machine. You cannot call Net::hostent::gethost() without a host name to resolve. eg.
perl -MNet::hostent -e '$host = gethost(); print $host->name, "\n"'
Not enough arguments for Net::hostent::gethost at -e line 1, near "()"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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And let's not get into the fact that you might
have multiple IP addresses.
You never said what platform you are on either.
If UN*Xy the easiest pure-perl is to parse
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*.
You might steal the code from http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
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perl -p -e "s/(?:\w);([st])/'\$1/mg"
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Re: Getting net addy on localhost?
by r.joseph (Hermit) on Nov 30, 2001 at 10:01 UTC
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Hey everyone, thanks for all the help! In response to some of your questions about my specifics:
Slackware Linunx
IP Obtained from DHCP server
Reason for needing IP: I am running a streaming Icecast server from my computer (ssshhhhh, don't tell the net admins :), and I want to, everytime I restart, have my computer automagicaly contact a script I write on my webserver, which then updates my page, telling everyone where to connect for my music.
Again, thanks for all the help!
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