On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:12 +0000, John Levon wrote:
> getfqdn(name='')
> Get fully qualified domain name from name.
>
> An empty argument is interpreted as meaning the local host.
>
> First the hostname returned by gethostbyaddr() is checked, then
> possibly existing aliases. In case no FQDN is available, hostname
> is returned.
>
> Let me know if you'd like further details here.
I don't believe that this is an airtight way of constraining this
service to local use only.
I think you'd be far safer binding the socket to 127.0.0.1 by default;
relying on gethostbyaddr() to only return "localhost" for a loopback
address doesn't strike me as particularly clever.
- Bill
