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diff --git a/lib/facter/ipaddress.rb b/lib/facter/ipaddress.rb index d563408..5260504 100644 --- a/lib/facter/ipaddress.rb +++ b/lib/facter/ipaddress.rb @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +# Fact: ipaddress +# +# Purpose: Return the main IP address for a host. +# +# Resolution: +# On the Unixes does an ifconfig, and returns the first non 127.0.0.0/8 +# subnetted IP it finds. +# On Windows, it attempts to use the socket library and resolve the machine's +# hostname via DNS. +# +# On LDAP based hosts it tries to use either the win32/resolv library to +# resolve the hostname to an IP address, or on Unix, it uses the resolv +# library. +# +# As a fall back for undefined systems, it tries to run the "host" command to +# resolve the machine's hostname using the system DNS. +# +# Caveats: +# DNS resolution relies on working DNS infrastructure and resolvers on the +# host system. +# The ifconfig parsing purely takes the first IP address it finds without any +# checking this is a useful IP address. +# + Facter.add(:ipaddress) do confine :kernel => :linux setcode do |