Comparing a peer's IPv6 address with localhost

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Published on 2010-05-18T23:40:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 2:30 UTC
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I have called getpeername on my connected socket and now have an IPv6 address of the connected peer. How do I tell whether my peer's IP address is localhost?

(the host name "localhost" is not defined in the target system's hosts file, so I need to work with IP addresses only)

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