Detecting hostname == localhost?

[Thiago Macieira]

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Michael Goffioul wrote:
>I've got a problem that should be fixed before 3.1. I want to detect
>that a given hostname corresponds to localhost. The hostname may be
>in alphabetical or IP address form. Is there an easy way to do that
>using KDE classes?

The known hostnames "localhost", "*" and "127.0.0.1" (and "::1" for IPv6) are 
guaranteed to be localhost and you could even hardcode that. However, there 
are other several possibilities of loopback that won't show up unless you 
perform a lookup.

That is the case for "localhost.localdomain" and any other "localhost.*" that 
will show up only by reading /etc/hosts and DNS queries. If that is 
acceptable, I think we could add a member (static?) function isLocalhost() to 
KInetSocketAddress that would return true in case an address is localhost.

However, this would be a new feature...

PS: that would probably be best in KAddressInfo or in the proposed 
KInetAddress class.
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