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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: internet address
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.001327.20942@cns.umist.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 91 00:13:27 GMT
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In article <HANCHE.91Feb26215414@hufsa.imf.unit.no> hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:
>In article <9102261044.AA02546@apo.esiee.fr> bonnetf@apo.esiee.fr (bonnet-franck) writes:
>
>   Does somebody knows how to get the internet address of a machine
>   when I am working on it ( whithout looking in /etc/hosts ) ?
>
>% /etc/ifconfig eth0
>eth0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
>      inet 129.241.15.4 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 129.241.255.255 macaddr 8:0:1e:1:ba:a4
>
Surely this does not give the hostid of a machine, but of a
port - not necessarily the same thing (esp if there is more
than one port). I expect you need to use a program that invokes
gethostid, but it is a pure guess, and I haven't tried looking
further.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST