waldo kitty wrote:
i would attempt to go portable by performing a DNS lookup on the address
and or the given host name... i don't think i would try to use external
programs for this but would compare my results with theirs for the same
lookups...
Agreed. I rarely use external programs since there's too much risk
they're misplaced or of an unexpected version
FWIW: i also just stumbled over our very similar conversation of a year
ago...
13 April 2012 - Resolving a local hostnames to an IP address
http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/Resolving-a-local-hostnames-to-an-IP-address-td5637709.html
So did I. As a quick hack I've parsed /etc/resolv.conf (which covers at
least the Linux and Solaris cases), falling back to GetDomainName() if
that fails. That will do for the moment, since it will normally be
overridden by a .ini file or by something explicitly entered by the user.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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