If a region address is resolveable to a single address, resolve it on

startup and use that address
This change facilitates running opensim within containers and VMs where
the external address isn't that of the VM/container but that of the
host.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs
index ca17793..f764a34 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs
@@ -708,7 +708,11 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
             }
             else
             {
-                m_externalHostName = externalName;
+                IPAddress[] addrs = Dns.GetHostAddresses(externalName);
+                if (addrs.Length != 1) // If it is ambiguous or not resolveable, use it literally
+                    m_externalHostName = externalName;
+                else
+                    m_externalHostName = addrs[0].ToString();
             }
 
             // RegionType