[Bug 13246] Emperor - Rise of the middle kingdom detects wrong interface IP

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13246

--- Comment #4 from Kai Blin   2008-05-16 03:39:42 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> anyways windows has the loopback entry in its hosts file too and only the
> loopback entry.
> so something is not behaving as it should

That's because Windows generally ignores the host file and gives you the IP
address of the last interface that came up, whereas Unix systems always check
the hosts file. This is very, very hard to work around and also only creates
problems for applications that use gethostbyname( gethostname() ) to figure out
their IP address, which is a bad idea even on Windows machines, as this will
break if you have a multihomed host and the interface you don't want to use
came up last.