I found myself often looking for a quick way to determine "the local IP address", and then being lost in the "ip addr" output to find for the right one to use. This is supposed to help a bit with that. Let's introduce a new special hostname "_outbound" with semantics similar to "_gateway" that resolves to addresses that are the closest I could come up with that maps to "the" local IP address.
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