Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:35:00 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | 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 Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> > [ This is one of (at least) three different things that > > have been mentioned in this thread, but lets limit > > into only this one thing in this email ... ] > > > > Why that needs a list of all addresses in the system ? > > > > Reception can query with standard BSD API what is > > the local address of the socket _at_the_moment_ at > > receiving side. ( getsockname() ) > > > > Is there, really, any reason to detect locally anything else ? > > The question is about what to do if you got a message to root@[10.0.0.1] > through a socket with local address (getsockname()) being 192.193.194.165. > If the local address is 10.0.0.1 also, there is no problem, the message is > clearly for your MTA.
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