[zeromq-dev] Obtaining IP adress a message is sent from

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Niels,

0MQ doesn't give you the connection endpoint and in any case this
isn't reliable when connections cross firewalls. Nor is that enough
for a return connection in many cases -- you need to add a port number
if you're accepting incoming connections on a different port. What we
do, and it's quite clean, is to pass a connection endpoint in a hello
message, with a protocol that handles discovery and interconnection.
You can see an example of this in Chapter 8 of the Guide.

-Pieter

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Niels Berglund
<niels.it.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a scenario where (for various reasons, fraud, etc) I need to know
> where a particular message comes from. I.e. a "client" connects to my
> "server" and subsequently sends messages. When the "service" receives the
> message, it needs to obtain the ip-address the message originated from and
> inject that in the message - could potentially be a 0MQ message frame -
> which then is forwarded to some other service, handling this particular
> message type.
>
> I have not seen any straightforward way of doing this in 0MQ - is it
> possible, and if not; could there be some other solution to this (i.e. other
> than the client itself injecting it - which is not a very satisfactory
> solution)?
>
> Thanks!
> Niels
>
>
>
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