Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:28:41 +0800 (GMT)
From:	Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To:	Michael Åström <michael DOT astrom AT erm DOT ericsson DOT se>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: TCP/IP, what is my IP address?
In-Reply-To:	<33954849.2EAA@erm.ericsson.se>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SGI.3.93.970609112252.22353A-100000@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Michael Åström wrote:

> Sorry, but I think you missunderstod me. The programs task is to figure
> out its own IP-address. And therefor I need a C scource that does so.
> Please, post me one.

Uhm. If you're using UNIX, you can do something like this:

---
 #include <netdb.h>

 struct hostent entry, *tmpentry;
 tmpentry = gethostbyname ("localhost");
 if (tmpentry == NULL)
 {
   fprintf (stderr, "couldn't resolve hostname: localhost\n");
   exit (1);
 }
 else
   memcpy (&entry, tmpentry, sizeof (struct hostent));
---

At which point entry.h_addr_list contains the list of IP addresses
(char **h_addr_list) terminated with a null (i.e. first IP address is
h_addr_list[0] and so on). These are 4-bytes long for IPv4, network-byte
order (not yet dotted-decimal). You can use the inet_network() function to
retrieve the dotten-decimal address.

If you're using Winsock/Windows.. I haven't got a clue  :)
 

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