The logic in get_myaddress() is broken: it always returns the loopback
address due to the following rule:
if ((ifreq.ifr_flags & IFF_UP) &&
ifr->ifr_addr.sa_family == AF_INET &&
(loopback == 1 && (ifreq.ifr_flags & IFF_LOOPBACK))) {
The idea is that we want to select the interface address only if it's
up and it's in the AF_INET family. If it turns uout we don't have
such an interface available, we make a second pass through the loop,
this time settling for the loopback interface. But the logic inadvertently
locks out all cases when loopback == 0, so nothing is ever selected until
the second pass (when loopback == 1).
This is changed to:
if (((ifreq.ifr_flags & IFF_UP) &&
ifr->ifr_addr.sa_family == AF_INET) ||
(loopback == 1 && (ifreq.ifr_flags & IFF_LOOPBACK))) {
which I think does the right thing.
This is yet another bogon I discovered during NIS+ testing; I need
get_myaddress() to work correctly so that the callback code in the
client library will work.
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