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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:34 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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.

As far as I can remember from coding it, the coaster service explicitly
uses the GLOBUS_HOSTNAME that the service is started with for the
callback address.

> 
> 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.
> 

We could test this, but I suspect that given one of the two strategies,
there will be some sites for which things won't work with it.