[Mono-bugs] [Bug 63265][Nor] Changed - When the AddressList for a machine is requested only loopback address is returned

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Changed by miguel@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63265

--- shadow/63265	2004-08-22 18:12:54.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/63265.tmp.21971	2005-01-18 20:54:50.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Bug#: 63265
 Product: Mono: Runtime
 Version: unspecified
 OS: All
 OS Details: tested on Windows XP, Linux SuSe 9.0
-Status: RESOLVED   
-Resolution: NOTABUG
+Status: REOPENED   
+Resolution: 
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Normal
 Component: packaging
 AssignedTo: gonzalo@ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: martinf@mfconsulting.com               
 QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
@@ -132,6 +132,23 @@
 Then in that case it looks like the test code here is just doing a
 straight DNS lookup irrespective of what the interface is set to, and
 windows is setting the DNS info when the interface state changes.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From gonzalo@ximian.com  2004-08-22 18:12 -------
 ok, seems like it's not a bug.
+
+------- Additional Comments From miguel@ximian.com  2005-01-18 20:54 -------
+We could handle the special case where the hostname passed to the 
+GetHostByName is the result of `gethostname'.
+
+If so, we could return all of the IPAddresses associated with the
+hostname, all of the interfaces on the system.  
+
+This will be highly unportable code though.
+
+Am just reopening to keep this issue around, our behavior is clearly
+correct;  but I can see why people will be using this API.
+
+The only portable thing we can do on Unix to find out the IP 
+address being used is to connect to a system; and then query the
+credentials to extract the ip address that the kernel used to
+connect (this is what FTP clients do when they send the PORT command)