[Mimedefang] Adding support for learning our addresses

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Tue Jan 31 16:45:22 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 15:18, Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

If you are behind NAT, especially if you are multi-homed or going
through clustered or failover proxies or gateways there may not
be any way to find all of the possible public addresses you might
use.  It's bad enough if you are just multi-homed.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com





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