Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:47:42 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19] |
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:44:23PM +0400, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > The question was which ip.address in user@[ip.address] should be treated as > local. > My comment was that the only reasonable solution on Linux is to treat this > way addresses explicitly specified in the configuration file. > Postfix may show its guess at the installation time. > > Now the question of recognizing user@[ip.address] as local is a question of a > simple table lookup.
It would be at least possible to ask the routing engine via RTM_GETROUTE and checking for RTN_LOCAL if it considers an address local. It won't cover all cases with netfilter rules etc.; but probably be a good enough approximation.
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