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From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Subject: Re: IP address of local machine
Message-ID: <D8GwnL.384@mv.mv.com>
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 13:40:32 GMT
References: <D8Fs2t.Cr7@mv.mv.com> <3ovkv8$ejc@huron.eel.ufl.edu>
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In article <3ovkv8$ejc@huron.eel.ufl.edu>, <jfh@ucet.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
> *( (struct in_addr *) hostEntry->h_addr_list[0] )
>
> or easier:
>
> struct in_addr *address = (struct in_addr *) hostEntry->h_addr_list[0];
> inet_ntoa(*address);
>
Aftet posting, I started downloading public TCP packages to figure
out how they do it. I finally came up with much the same, though
a bit cleaner.
struct in_addr address;
memcpy ((char *) &address, hostEntry->h_addr_list[n], sizeof(address));
then you have a real in_addr in local memory.
-coranth
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