Re: [Condor-devel] localhost on linux

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We were talking about getting the IP without actually communicating with 
the collector, but I still agree that it shouldn't be an issue, assuming 
the collector isn't bound to localhost. If it is you are in trouble anyway.


matt

Greg Thain wrote:
> > > #4 doesn't handle the case in which the machine in question is the 
> > > central manager and is running a startd and/or schedd, the ads from 
> > > these would have the address of the loopback (over which they would 
> > > contact the collector).
>
> Are you sure about this?  I thought the collector was currently 
> re-writing the address based on getpeername?  So long as CONDOR_HOST is 
> not set to the loopback, shouldn't we be OK in that case?
>
> _Greg