Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT

>>>>> "Sarathy" == Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> writes:
    Sarathy> A global in the IO:: namespace is better, but it seems to
    Sarathy> me the default for LocalAddr should automatically be the
    Sarathy> most typical/reasonable one ("localhost"?), without
    Sarathy> people having to poke around globals.

On a single-homed box that happens automatically, I think Andreas is
trying to handle systems, like most of the ones here, where there are
more that on physical interface or more than one logical address
associated with a physical interface and perhaps a fire-wall in the
way that will only allow packets originating of a particular address.

'localhost' by the way would be very bad.  It's a little hard for the
remote system to get packets back to you. :)

-- 
Stephen

"A duck!"

• Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Graham Barr
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Stephen Zander