From a74e7282469f69d83a932adcfecabaeaf82f9567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: calvin <calvin@e7d03fd6-7b0d-0410-9947-9c21f3af8025>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:58:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ignore loopback interface

git-svn-id: https://linkchecker.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/linkchecker/trunk/linkchecker@2810 e7d03fd6-7b0d-0410-9947-9c21f3af8025
---
 linkcheck/dns/resolver.py | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/linkcheck/dns/resolver.py b/linkcheck/dns/resolver.py
index 7100b587..f9538cab 100644
--- a/linkcheck/dns/resolver.py
+++ b/linkcheck/dns/resolver.py
@@ -342,14 +342,18 @@ class Resolver(object):
             self.add_addrinfo(addr, interface=True)
 
     def read_local_ifaddrs (self):
-        """all active interfaces' ip addresses"""
+        """
+        IP addresses for all active interfaces.
+        @return: list of IP addresses
+        @rtype: list of strings
+        """
         if not sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
             # only Linux is supported right now
             return []
         import linkcheck.dns.ifconfig
         ifc = linkcheck.dns.ifconfig.IfConfig()
-        return [ifc.getAddr(iface) for iface in ifc.getInterfaceList()
-                if ifc.isUp(iface)]
+        return [ifc.getAddr(iface) for iface in ifc.getInterfaceList() \
+                if ifc.isUp(iface) and not ifc.isLoopback(iface)]
 
     def add_addrinfo (self, host, interface=False):
         try: