diff --git a/pkg/tools/listenonurl/listenonurl.go b/pkg/tools/listenonurl/listenonurl.go
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+++ b/pkg/tools/listenonurl/listenonurl.go
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+// Copyright (c) 2021-2022 Nordix and/or its affiliates.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package listenonurl providesfunctions to set public url to register NSM
+package listenonurl
+
+import (
+	"net"
+	"net/url"
+)
+
+// GetPublicURL - constructs an URL from an address accessible
+//  clusterwide and a given port
+// 	defaults to the given URL if no such address can be found
+func GetPublicURL(addrs []net.Addr, defaultURL *url.URL) *url.URL {
+	if defaultURL.Port() == "" || len(defaultURL.Host) != len(":")+len(defaultURL.Port()) {
+		return defaultURL
+	}
+
+	if listenIP := getIP(addrs); listenIP != nil {
+		return &url.URL{
+			Scheme: "tcp",
+			Host:   net.JoinHostPort(listenIP.String(), defaultURL.Port()),
+		}
+	}
+	return defaultURL
+}
+
+func getIP(addrs []net.Addr) net.IP {
+	var ret net.IP
+	for _, a := range addrs {
+		if ipnet, ok := a.(*net.IPNet); ok && !ipnet.IP.IsLoopback() {
+			// defaults to IPv4 address if available
+			if ipnet.IP.To4() != nil {
+				return ipnet.IP
+			}
+			// accept all IPv6 Global Unicats addresses
+			// including Unique-Local Address (which starts with ‘fd’)
+			if ret == nil && ipnet.IP.IsGlobalUnicast() {
+				ret = ipnet.IP
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ret
+}
diff --git a/pkg/tools/listenonurl/listenonurl_test.go b/pkg/tools/listenonurl/listenonurl_test.go
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index 000000000..f3fc3cab2
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+++ b/pkg/tools/listenonurl/listenonurl_test.go
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+// Copyright (c) 2021-2022 Nordix and/or its affiliates.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package listenonurl_test
+
+import (
+	"net"
+	"net/url"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/networkservicemesh/sdk/pkg/tools/listenonurl"
+)
+
+func TestGetPublicURL(t *testing.T) {
+	test := []struct {
+		u   *url.URL
+		ips []net.Addr
+		exp string
+	}{
+		{
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "file",
+				Host:   "",
+				Path:   "/local-path"},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // 10.244.2.13/24
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(10, 244, 2, 13), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0)},
+			},
+			exp: "file:///local-path",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   "172.17.11.1:5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // 10.244.2.13/24
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(10, 244, 2, 13), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://172.17.11.1:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // 10.244.2.13/24
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(10, 244, 2, 13), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://10.244.2.13:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // 127.0.0.1/8
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 0, 0, 0)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{
+				// 10.244.2.13/24, 127.0.0.1/8, 135.104.0.0/24
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(10, 244, 2, 13), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0)},
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 0, 0, 0)},
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(135, 104, 0, 0), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://10.244.2.13:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{
+				// fd00:10:244:1::9/32, 10.244.2.13/24
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.ParseIP("fd00:10:244:1::9"), Mask: net.CIDRMask(32, 128)},
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.IPv4(10, 244, 2, 13), Mask: net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://10.244.2.13:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // fd00:10:244:1::9/32
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.ParseIP("fd00:10:244:1::9"), Mask: net.CIDRMask(32, 128)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://[fd00:10:244:1::9]:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // 2001:DB8::1/48, fd00:10:244:1::9/32
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.ParseIP("2001:DB8::1"), Mask: net.CIDRMask(48, 128)},
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.ParseIP("fd00:10:244:1::9"), Mask: net.CIDRMask(32, 128)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://[2001:db8::1]:5009",
+		}, {
+			u: &url.URL{
+				Scheme: "tcp",
+				Host:   ":5009",
+			},
+			ips: []net.Addr{ // fe80::1/48
+				&net.IPNet{IP: net.ParseIP("fe80::1"), Mask: net.CIDRMask(48, 128)},
+			},
+			exp: "tcp://:5009",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range test {
+		actual := listenonurl.GetPublicURL(tt.ips, tt.u)
+		if tt.exp != actual.String() {
+			t.Errorf("GetPublicURL(%q, %q) = %q, want %q", tt.ips, tt.u, actual, tt.exp)
+		}
+	}
+}