[zeromq-dev] Peer ip address ?

[Satish]

Hi,

Try using getsocketname. The only problem is that some show the zeromq 
socket descriptor needs to appear/compatible with a normal socket 
descriptor.

Satish


On Thursday, 16 January 2014 03:14:35 UTC+11, mraptor wrote:
>
> hi I was looking for a way to find the peer/client ip address.
> All of the replies I've seen so far say it is not possible to get the IP 
> address of the peer in ZeroMQ.
>
> The main objection for not providing the IP address seem to be that zeromq 
> work on top of protocols which may not be TCP/IP.
>
> The solution pointed by most of the people seems to be to figure out the 
> IP address at the client and pass it as a part of the message.
>
> I'm currently needing the IP address for logging purposes and in the 
> future for filtering and routing.
> Two problems arise :
>
> 1. What happens if you don't have access to the client code i.e. it is 
> written by third party
> 2. Second allowing the client to provide the IP address could be major 
> security breach, because if it is up to the client, they can place whatever 
> IP they want, how would you know ?
>
> How do you solve those problems ?  Unless zeromq, already have some means 
> of getting the peer IP, the discussions about this were from 2011 ?
>
> thank you
>
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