Mike Burger wrote:
> Philippe Moutarlier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am at lost about how to access the IP distributed by a DHCP server
> > from a C program.
> >
> > The gethostbyname requires the entry for my name to be either on DNS
> > (but then how do I know the name given by my server ?) or in my etc/host
>
> I'm not a programmer, and know nothing of C, but...
>
> Isn't there a "gethostbyaddr" function?
sure, would work if I knew the IP, wouldn't it ??
>
>
> If not, can you program something that could call ifconfig and pull the IP
> from the results?
>
sure again. I was looking for something a little more simple ...
Philippe
>
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