linux-ipsec: canonical name of a machine

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Does anybody know the resolver well enough to offer some suggestions?...

I am trying to compare an arbitrary IP with the host to see if they are one and the same.

I would like to be able to compare a symbolic or numeric address with the host it is running in to see if it is referring to itself. In the case of a single network card, this is trivial, but once you have more than one network interface (3 ethers and 1 ppp) it is no longer obvious. Is there some resolver function that will identify the canonical address of any machine?

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