From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Jason M. Daniels)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP, what is my IP address?
Date: 9 Jun 1997 05:55:09 GMT
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Orlando Andico (orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph) wrote:
> Uhm. If you're using UNIX, you can do something like this:

<snip>

>  tmpentry = gethostbyname ("localhost");

<snip>

Won't this always return 127.0.0.1, though?

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