sockets: bind to external interface

From	Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	sockets: bind to external interface
Date	2011-04-25 20:37 +0100
Organization	University of Bergen
Message-ID	<k4vg88-0tt.ln1@svn.schaathun.net> (permalink)

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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

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sockets: bind to external interface Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-25 20:37 +0100
  Re: sockets: bind to external interface Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 05:49 +1000
    Re: sockets: bind to external interface Jean-Paul Calderone <calderone.jeanpaul@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 13:13 -0700
    Re: sockets: bind to external interface Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-25 21:14 +0100
      Re: sockets: bind to external interface Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-25 21:24 +0100
        Re: sockets: bind to external interface Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 07:21 +1000
      Re: sockets: bind to external interface Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 06:30 +1000
        Re: sockets: bind to external interface Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-04-25 23:18 +0200
          Re: sockets: bind to external interface Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 07:50 +1000
          Re: sockets: bind to external interface Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-26 06:20 +0100
      Re: sockets: bind to external interface Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-04-25 23:14 +0200
  Re: sockets: bind to external interface Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-04-26 11:24 +0200

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