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From: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining one's own IP address.
Message-ID: <5215@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 18:44:55 GMT
References: <601@bmers58.UUCP> <4429@ur-cc.UUCP> <604@bmers58.UUCP>
Reply-To: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <604@bmers58.UUCP> davem@bmers58.UUCP (Dave Mielke) writes:
>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.


     Well, as they say (whoever THEY are!! (-:), RTFM (at least for a BSD
system):

	sethostid(2), gethostid(2), hostid(1)