Kai Blin schreef: > I'm not really surprised. That's the reason why gethostbyname is deprecated, > if I read MSDN correctly. Anyhow, it looks like Windows doesn't return > 127.0.0.1 unless it doesn't have any other IP address to return. Programs > can't count on which NIC's IP that will be, though. > Worth noting: Ubuntu resolves hostname to 127.0.1.1 by default, might want to check for 127/8 explicitly instead of just 127.0.0.1
Maarten