Inform the user when there are more possibilities (so he can check for the
right address and otherwise he is able to do an immediate reprovision) and no
possibility at all (then we fall back to the loopback address "127.0.0.1" - this
is thought for testing purposes).
I think this should be enough for closing bug #5484.
paths.bind_gid = bind_gid
if hostip is None:
- try:
- for ip in socket.getaddrinfo(names.hostname, None, socket.AF_INET, socket.AI_CANONNAME, socket.IPPROTO_IP):
- if hostip is None:
- hostip = ip[-1][0]
- if hostip.startswith('127.0.0.') and (not ip[-1][0].startswith('127.0.0.')):
- hostip = ip[-1][0]
- except socket.gaierror, (socket.EAI_NODATA, msg):
- hostip = None
+ hostips = glue.interface_ips(lp)
+ if len(hostips) == 0:
+ message("No external IPv4 address has been found: I use the loopback.")
+ hostip = '127.0.0.1'
+ else:
+ hostip = hostips[0]
+ if len(hostips) > 1:
+ message("More than one IPv4 address found: I use " + hostip + ".")
if hostip6 is None:
try: