Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!davem
From: davem@bmers58.UUCP (Dave Mielke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining one's own IP address.
Message-ID: <604@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 12:57:22 GMT
References: <601@bmers58.UUCP> <4429@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: davem@bmers58.UUCP (Dave Mielke)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <4429@ur-cc.UUCP> leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley) writes:
>	Assuming (a lot of things, but primarily that) you wish to do this from
>the shell command line and that you know the network interface name:
 
I would like to be able to determine my local IP address without
involving a hosts file or yp lookup, i.e. from memory, from within a c
program.