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Re: Finding Out My Own IP-Address
- To: Oliver Copp <lyger at fh-landshut dot de>
- Subject: Re: Finding Out My Own IP-Address
- From: "$Bill Luebkert" <dbe at wgn dot net>
- Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 23:20:20 -0700
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: DBE Collectibles
- References: <199805062058.NAA06618@cygnus.com>
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.
>
> When I dial in to my provider via NT-RAS, I'm assigned a dynamic IP address -
> which is what I'm trying to find out.
How about:
$name = (gethostbyname ("localhost"))[0];
$addr = (gethostbyname ($name))[4];
printf "%s\n", join ('.', unpack ("C4", $addr));
Works for me (Win95a, GS Perl).
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