[Mimedefang] Adding support for learning our addresses

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

Sean Ware wrote:
> Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com (Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com) @
> 2006.01.31 11:21:47 -0800: 
>> Hence services like www.whatismyip.com
>> 
>> What I think would be really nice is a new kind of DNS
>> record... something like WHOAMI... that provides this kind of a
>> service.  So for example 
>> 
>> dig -t WHOAMI your-friendly-neighborhood-dns-server.example.com
>> 
>> would return (in the ANSWER section) the IP address that
>> your-friendly-neighborhood-dns-server sees the request coming from.
> 
> I think this would probably just yield the public IP address of your
> DNS resolver, unless you queried the service's own DNS server
> directly.

Good point.  Still useful if /etc/resolv.conf is "nameserver 127.0.0.1" but less generally useful than I had thought.

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