>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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
