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From: gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining one's own IP address.
Message-ID: <GNB.89Dec13170734@baby.bby.oz.au>
Date: 13 Dec 89 06:07:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM's message of 12 Dec 89 18:44:55 GMT

In article <5215@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM writes:

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

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

Not on suns.  The hostid is set in a prom, and has nothing to do with
ip address.  Things like mathematica use it for compy protection.

Greg.
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