Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932088AbWE2XRe (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 19:17:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932089AbWE2XRe (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 19:17:34 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:12503 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932088AbWE2XRd (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 19:17:33 -0400 From: be-news06@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.13.4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 01:17:31 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 22 Joshua Hudson wrote: > If I ever need to know my outside-facing IP address, I connect a UDP > socket to 1.2.3.4 Is your MUA doing that to construct MsgIDs? Your NUA? Your MTA? a local news spool? For a robust installation of all of them you specify the name, but some of those services better work out of the box, so the notion of a primary FQDN is not that bad to have. > and to a getsockname(). To get outside-hostname, I do a reverse-lookup on that. > Since 1.0.0.0/8 will never be allocated, this is gauranteed to work > when there is a way out. Why should any of your IPs have a reverse resolveable name? Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/