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 -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
