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diff --git a/changes/bug1827 b/changes/bug1827 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0701876d81 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug1827 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ + - Minor features: + - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface + addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was + binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That + approach was confusing people whose draconian firewall software + didn't like binding to UDP sockets, regardless of whether + packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(), SIOCGIFCONF, + or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the system + supports. Resolves ticket #1827. |