How to retrieve address of current machine? - go

Question

The following grabs the local IP addresses:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net"
)
func main() {
a, _ := net.LookupHost("localhost")
fmt.Printf("Addresses: %#+v\n",a)
}
Is this how you would normally get the local IP address, filtering the slice manually according to need?

Answer 1

Here's a quick and dirty modification of a code snippet originally posted by Russ Cox to the golang-nuts google group:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net"
"os"
)
func main() {
tt, err := net.Interfaces()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
for _, t := range tt {
aa, err := t.Addrs()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
for _, a := range aa {
ipnet, ok := a.(*net.IPNet)
if !ok {
continue
}
v4 := ipnet.IP.To4()
if v4 == nil || v4[0] == 127 { // loopback address
continue
}
fmt.Printf("%v\n", v4)
}
os.Exit(0)
}
os.Exit(1)
}

Answer 2

Finding the correct IP address can be a problem because a typical server and development machine may have multiple interfaces. For example $ifconfig on my Mac returns the following interfaces lo0, gif0, stf0, en0, en1, en2, bridge0, p2p0, vmnet1, vmnet8, tap0, fw0, en4
Basically, you need to know your environment.
It's not pretty, but for what it's worth, this is what I use on a production Ubuntu server. It also works on my development Mac 10.9.2, who know what it does on Windows.
package main
import (
"net"
"strings"
)
func findIPAddress() string {
if interfaces, err := net.Interfaces(); err == nil {
for _, interfac := range interfaces {
if interfac.HardwareAddr.String() != "" {
if strings.Index(interfac.Name, "en") == 0 ||
strings.Index(interfac.Name, "eth") == 0 {
if addrs, err := interfac.Addrs(); err == nil {
for _, addr := range addrs {
if addr.Network() == "ip+net" {
pr := strings.Split(addr.String(), "/")
if len(pr) == 2 && len(strings.Split(pr[0], ".")) == 4 {
return pr[0]
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
return ""
}
func main() {
println(findIPAddress())
}

Answer 3

I have one addition: The current solutions shown above are not working at least on FreeBSD 10 because the system returns the addresses as CIDR notation e.g. 192.168.1.2/32! Therefore, it is necessary to change the solution a little bit:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net"
"os"
"strings"
)
func main() {
addrs, err := net.InterfaceAddrs()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error: " + err.Error())
os.Exit(1)
}
for _, a := range addrs {
text := a.String()
if strings.Contains(text, `/`) {
text = text[:strings.Index(text, `/`)]
}
ip := net.ParseIP(text)
if !ip.IsLoopback() && !ip.IsUnspecified() {
fmt.Println(ip)
}
}
}
The part ...
if strings.Contains(text, `/`) {
text = text[:strings.Index(text, `/`)]
}
... detects if / is part of the address and delete this part!
Best regards,
Thorsten

Answer 4

These slight modifications worked for me:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net"
"os"
)
func myip() {
os.Stdout.WriteString("myip:\n")
addrs, err := net.InterfaceAddrs()
if err != nil {
fmt.Errorf("error: %v\n", err.Error())
return
}
for _, a := range addrs {
ip := net.ParseIP(a.String())
fmt.Printf("addr: %v loopback=%v\n", a, ip.IsLoopback())
}
fmt.Println()
}
func myip2() {
os.Stdout.WriteString("myip2:\n")
tt, err := net.Interfaces()
if err != nil {
fmt.Errorf("error: %v\n", err.Error())
return
}
for _, t := range tt {
aa, err := t.Addrs()
if err != nil {
fmt.Errorf("error: %v\n", err.Error())
continue
}
for _, a := range aa {
ip := net.ParseIP(a.String())
fmt.Printf("%v addr: %v loopback=%v\n", t.Name, a, ip.IsLoopback())
}
}
fmt.Println()
}
func main() {
fmt.Println("myip -- begin")
myip()
myip2()
fmt.Println("myip -- end")
}