Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:50:04 -0700 From: "Chuck T." <freebsdfan@hotmail.com> To: ertr1013@student.uu.se Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: programatically list all local IP addresses ? Message-ID: <F94kDgGorXhnfwhRxFF00019560@hotmail.com>
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>Use gethostname()/gethostbyname() (or gethostbyaddr()) and then look >through the 'h_addr_list' array in the 'struct hostent' returned by >gethostbyname(). That should contain all the network addresses that >were found for the given host. That doesn't work when the lookup matches an entry in /etc/hosts, only the *first* address is returned even if there are multiple entries. That was my first attempt. The machine that was returning 127.0.0.1 also had a valid (nonlocal) IP address listed later in the file. 127.0.0.1 isn't very useful in my application because it's sent to another host, not used locally. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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