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From: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Determining one's own IP address.
Message-ID: <5229@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:14:00 GMT
References: <601@bmers58.UUCP> <4429@ur-cc.UUCP> <604@bmers58.UUCP> <5215@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> <GNB.89Dec13170734@baby.bby.oz.au>
Reply-To: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <GNB.89Dec13170734@baby.bby.oz.au> gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
>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.


     Guilty as charged. I have never used a Sun in my life (gotta toe the
company line and use our own workstations, ya know!!! (-:), and probably
never will use a Sun.....

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