# otherwise compare IP addresses;
# this might fail for any number of reasons, so let's harden that
try:
+ # xxx todo this seems to result in a DNS request for each incoming request to the AM
+ # should be cached or improved
url_ip=socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
local_ip=socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
if url_ip==local_ip: is_local=True