[erlang-questions] how to get the factual ip address?

[Matthew Dempsky]

2008/10/25 litao cheng <litaocheng@REDACTED>:
> I can use the ifconfig to see the ip address of eth0 is 192.168.1.101, I
> want to get this value. how can I do it?

Computers have more than one IP address.  E.g., yours has both
127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.101.  Other computers have even more.  The
inet module has undocumented functions getif/0 and getiflist/0 that
might do what you want.

Another possibility is to call inet:sockname/1 on an open socket to
find what address the operating system used.