Subject: RE: Finding Out My Own IP-Address
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

7 May 1998 09:43:24 -0700
Message-ID: <01BD79C2.583AD970.cygnus.gnu-win32@drs>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        "'Oliver Copp'"
	 <[email-masked]>

Oliver Copp wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> Is there a function which allows me to find out my current IP address ?
> 
> My best guess was to use gethostbyname("localhost") but that always returns
> 127.0.0.1. 
> 

Try gethostbyname(gethostname()).

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia.

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