[Vm-dev] Finding ip address for eth0?

[Andreas Raab]

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>> Quick Unix question: How do I find out what the IP address for eth0/eth1 is?
>> I thought NetNameResolver>>localHostAddress was supposed to return this but
>> it returns consistently 127.0.0.1 which is fine from a purity point of view
>> but utterly useless from any practical perspective ;-)
> 
> I reported exactly this a while ago and was told that the problem is
> with me and not the code.

What was the argument? I'm not trying to find out how a client is 
ultimately connecting to the host - I'm trying to make a "best guess" 
for a zero configuration environment (concretely: a VMware image with a 
single network interface running in a bridged environment). The only 
thing that I know for sure is that 127.0.0.1 won't work because clients 
won't connect from localhost.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> Then I suggested that the code would be
> changed to directly return 127.0.0.1. That would achieve the same
> result more efficiently. Somehow that never got implemented though.
> 
> Cheers
> Philipe
>