[ale] Finding your IP address

[aesop]

Try gethostbyname(3).  The man page gives the details of the structure it
returns.

On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

> I'm looking for a good way to find the machine's IP address from inside a
> C program, 
> The only thing that comes to mind is that (I think) you can get
> your hostname and then do a DNS lookup on that, But I don't have a clue
> how, 
> Any help would be apprecciated.
> TIA
> Zephaniah E. Hull
> 
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> 

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