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getting your ip

Started by djsteffey Jan 14, 2001 at 10:41 PM 4 replies 550+ views

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Jan 14, 2001 at 10:41 PM

is there a function i can call to retrieve my ip address. I want to be able to do this in game so I can show the user his/her ip address. I know how to get it using winipcfg but that is from the run command in windows. I want to do this in game and store the ip in a char string like char ip[20] = "127.0.0.1"; "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time" - Monty Python and the Holy Grail We are creating a Multi-player space strategy/shoot-em-up/RPG game. Development is well under way and we do have a playable demo. Always looking for help. Digital Euphoria Soft

Thr33d

Jan 14, 2001 at 11:13 PM

sorry - not an answer but, just wanted to mention, i''m also looking for the answer to this. If i find it anywhere before you/we get a reply - i''ll post it

thanx
-mike

Wglc_

Jan 14, 2001 at 11:28 PM

I think what you''re looking for is gethostname() in winsock.h. It takes a character pointer to store the address and an integer for its length.

Hope that helps,
Wglc

djsteffey

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djsteffey

Jan 14, 2001 at 11:45 PM

that is almost right.......
that returns to me the name of my computer on our university network
what i am looking for is the actual ip address
ie
"123.123.123.123" os whatever

"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time"
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
We are creating a Multi-player space strategy/shoot-em-up/RPG game.
Development is well under way and we do have a playable demo.
Always looking for help.
Digital Euphoria Soft

logicpill

Jan 15, 2001 at 12:00 AM

I think you should be able to use one of the gethost or gethostby functions to to decompose the ip.

Anderoth

Jan 15, 2001 at 2:10 AM

LPHOSTENT thisputer;
char FAR * hname = "";
gethostname(hname,sizeof(hname));
thisputer = gethostbyname(hname);
thisaddy = ((LPIN_ADDR)thisputer->h_addr_list[0]);
sprintf(test,"Your IP is: %s.",inet_ntoa(*thisaddy));

hope it''s usefull

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