some interfaces where missing when checking if an address is local

requirements.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ sortedcontainers
 numpy
 
 # networking
+netifaces
 msgpack
 
 # cryptography

source/managers/CommunicationManager.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import zlib
 from datetime import datetime
 
 import bidict
+import netifaces
 
 from source import packets, utils, structures
 from source.behaviors import roles
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ class CommunicationManager:
         self.manager = manager
 
         self.broadcast_address = broadcast_address
+        self.interface = interface
         self.port = port
 
         # create an IPv6 UDP socket
@@ -221,14 +223,15 @@ class CommunicationManager:
         # decode the payload
         return self.packet_decode(payload), address
 
-    @staticmethod
+    def get_local_hosts(self) -> typing.Iterator[str]:
-    def get_local_addresses() -> list[tuple]:
         """
-        Get the local addresses of the machine
+        Get the local hosts addresses of the machine
-        :return: the local addresses of the machine
+        :return: the local hosts addresses of the machine
         """
 
-        return socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), None)
+        for interface_id, interface_addresses in netifaces.ifaddresses(self.interface).items():
+            for interface_address in interface_addresses:
+                yield interface_address["addr"].split("%")[0]
 
     def is_address_local(self, address: tuple) -> bool:
         """
@@ -238,28 +241,8 @@ class CommunicationManager:
 
         host, _, _, scope = address
 
-        # check for all the interfaces of our machine
+        # check if the host is in our local hosts list
-        for interface in self.get_local_addresses():
+        return host in list(self.get_local_hosts())
-            # unpack the interface information
-            interface_family, _, _, _, interface_address = interface
-
-            match interface_family:
-                case socket.AddressFamily.AF_INET:
-                    interface_host, interface_port = interface_address
-
-                    # check if it matches the address interface
-                    if host == interface_host:
-                        return True
-
-                case socket.AddressFamily.AF_INET6:
-                    interface_host, interface_port, interface_flowinfo, interface_scope = interface_address
-
-                    # check if it matches the address interface
-                    if host == interface_host and scope == interface_scope:
-                        return True
-
-        # no matching interfaces have been found
-        return False
 
     def save_trusted_peers(self) -> None:
         """

source/structures/Peer.py

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ class Peer:
     master: bool = dataclasses.field()
 
     # public asymmetric key
-    public_key: bytes = dataclasses.field()
+    public_key: bytes = dataclasses.field(repr=False)
     # secret symmetric key
-    secret_key: Optional[bytes] = dataclasses.field(default=None)
+    secret_key: Optional[bytes] = dataclasses.field(default=None, repr=False)
 
     # is the machine trusted
     trusted: bool = dataclasses.field(default=False)