Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:48:22 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: "Jason M. Daniels" <bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, what is my IP address?
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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?

Hmm. That's a possibility. In which case, it's UNIX-flavor-dependent. I
guess you could use gethostname(2) to get the hostname, then do the stuff
I've mentioned previously. 

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