id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
238	synchronous IP autodetect	dawuud		"
i'm not a fan of autodetect but if we have to have autodetect then it looks like it can be implemented synchronously like this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/166506/finding-local-ip-addresses-using-pythons-stdlib/166591#166591

using this python module which makes this operation way more portable than os.subprocess...
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces

note that this task is part of tasks:
http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/236
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2491
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/517#comment:31

"	defect	closed	major	undecided	network	0.7.0	wontfix