[Swift-devel] a note on running coasters on osg's RENCI Engage site

[Ben Clifford]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Mats Rynge wrote:

> I'm surprised that the private address was not used already.

It uses whatever the underlying stack tells it, which I think most likely 
is what the java.net.* library returns.

Even with a better API, its not clear to me what is the right way to 
determine which IP address goes where - a simple heuristic of 'RFC1918 
address = internal, non-RFC1918 address = external' will probably cover 
most cases, but not all.

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