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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-06 03:01:46 +0000
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# $Id: netutils.py $
+# pylint: disable=C0302
+
+"""
+Common Network Utility Functions.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import print_function;
+
+__copyright__ = \
+"""
+Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Oracle Corporation
+
+This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
+available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
+you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
+General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
+Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
+VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
+hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
+
+The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
+of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
+(CDDL) only, as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file of the
+VirtualBox OSE distribution, in which case the provisions of the
+CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
+
+You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
+terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
+"""
+__version__ = "$Revision: 127855 $"
+
+
+# Standard Python imports.
+import socket;
+
+
+def getPrimaryHostIpByUdp(sPeerIp = '255.255.255.255'):
+ """
+ Worker for getPrimaryHostIp.
+
+ The method is opening a UDP socket targetting a random port on a
+ limited (local LAN) broadcast address. We then use getsockname() to
+ obtain our own IP address, which should then be the primary IP.
+
+ Unfortunately, this doesn't always work reliably on Solaris. When for
+ instance our host only is configured, which interface we end up on seems
+ to be totally random.
+ """
+
+ try: oSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM);
+ except: oSocket = None;
+ if oSocket is not None:
+ try:
+ oSocket.connect((sPeerIp, 1984));
+ sHostIp = oSocket.getsockname()[0];
+ except:
+ sHostIp = None;
+ oSocket.close();
+ if sHostIp is not None:
+ return sHostIp;
+ return '127.0.0.1';
+
+
+def getPrimaryHostIpByHostname():
+ """
+ Worker for getPrimaryHostIp.
+
+ Attempts to resolve the hostname.
+ """
+ try:
+ return socket.gethostbyname(getHostnameFqdn());
+ except:
+ return '127.0.0.1';
+
+
+def getPrimaryHostIp():
+ """
+ Tries to figure out the primary (the one with default route), local
+ IPv4 address.
+
+ Returns the IP address on success and otherwise '127.0.0.1'.
+ """
+
+ #
+ # This isn't quite as easy as one would think. Doing a UDP connect to
+ # 255.255.255.255 turns out to be problematic on solaris with more than one
+ # network interface (IP is random selected it seems), as well as linux
+ # where we've seen 127.0.1.1 being returned on some hosts.
+ #
+ # So a modified algorithm first try a known public IP address, ASSUMING
+ # that the primary interface is the one that gets us onto the internet.
+ # If that fails, due to routing or whatever, we try 255.255.255.255 and
+ # then finally hostname resolution.
+ #
+ sHostIp = getPrimaryHostIpByUdp('8.8.8.8');
+ if sHostIp.startswith('127.'):
+ sHostIp = getPrimaryHostIpByUdp('255.255.255.255');
+ if sHostIp.startswith('127.'):
+ sHostIp = getPrimaryHostIpByHostname();
+ return sHostIp;
+
+
+def getHostnameFqdn():
+ """
+ Wrapper around getfqdn.
+
+ Returns the fully qualified hostname, None if not found.
+ """
+
+ try:
+ sHostname = socket.getfqdn();
+ except:
+ return None;
+
+ if '.' in sHostname or sHostname.startswith('localhost'):
+ return sHostname;
+
+ #
+ # Somewhat misconfigured system, needs expensive approach to guessing FQDN.
+ # Get address information on the hostname and do a reverse lookup from that.
+ #
+ try:
+ aAddressInfo = socket.getaddrinfo(sHostname, None);
+ except:
+ return sHostname;
+
+ for aAI in aAddressInfo:
+ try: sName, _ = socket.getnameinfo(aAI[4], 0);
+ except: continue;
+ if '.' in sName and not set(sName).issubset(set('0123456789.')) and not sName.startswith('localhost'):
+ return sName;
+
+ return sHostname;
+