Machine identification

[Erik Max Francis]

John Fabiani wrote:

> The above does not work for me.
> 
> socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
> > '127.0.0.2'
> 
> the ip address is 192.168.1.211 for the computer. And 127.0.0.2 is not
> localhost.

It is likely your machine is misconfigured.

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