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From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Subject: IP address of local machine
Message-ID: <D8Fs2t.Cr7@mv.mv.com>
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 23:04:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd
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Hi. I am trying to get a program to get the ip address of
the machine that it is running on.
The function "gethostbyname" returns a "struct hostent" which
has the "h_addr" field. All well and good. However the bytes
in this 4-byte string seem to have no relation to my ip address.
The functions for converting between ip-addr-number and dot-form
take a "struct in_addr". But I cannot find anything to convert
from a hostent to an in_addr.
Any ideas?
-coranth
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