Or don't use localhost at all! It will always return 127.0.0.1. That is the
loopback address of every adapter under the sun.
Bob
On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Nonsanity wrote:
> haha I completely failed to grasp that. :)
>
> How about:
>
> put char 2 to -2 of word 3 of shell( "ping -n 1" && word 2 of shell("ping -n
> 1 localhost") ) into msg
>
> ~ Chris Innanen
> ~ Nonsanity
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:20 PM, John Patten <johnpat...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually Chris I wanted the local network, behind the firewall IP address.
>> The project I have in mind is just using sockets in a single classroom. All
>> computers have 10.x.x.x. addresses.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John Patten
>> SUSD
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Nonsanity wrote:
>>
>> Neither of the solutions given so far in this thread have worked for my on
>>> my office PC. I just get my LAN 192.168.x.x number. Here's what I use.
>>> They
>>> do rely on outside entities, but they are both pretty stable sites that
>>> have
>>> lasted a good long time...
>>>
>>> [whatismyip.org]
>>> put url "http://www.whatismyip.org"; into myExIP
>>>
>>> [dyndns.org]
>>> put url "http://checkip.dyndns.org"; into resp
>>> set itemdel to ":"
>>> put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of resp into resp
>>> set itemdel to "<"
>>> put item 1 of resp into myExIP
>>>
>>>
>>> ~ Chris Innanen
>>> ~ Nonsanity
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, John Patten <johnpat...@mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All...
>>>>
>>>> I've been looking at all the solutions in the archive for getting the IP
>>>> address of the machine running a stack. Some shell scripts, some php
>>>> calls,
>>>> etc. etc.
>>>>
>>>> I have a situation where we are behind a firewall using NAT. So all our
>>>> computers are running a 10.x.x.x.x address. I'm trying to implement some
>>>> socket communication between stacks and IP address information is
>>>> essential
>>>> for this to work. I would like the communication process set up to be as
>>>> transparent as possible, allowing users to connect by name and maybe
>>>> holding
>>>> IP address is a custom property for example.
>>>>
>>>> The Dictionary provides some examples for hostAdress function and I tried
>>>> (wishful thinking, script trickery) something like this:
>>>>
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>> open socket to "127.0.0.1:5005" with message "socketOpen"
>>>> put the result
>>>> end mouseUp
>>>>
>>>> on socketOpen theSock
>>>> put the hostAddress of "127.0.0.1:5005"
>>>> end socketOpen
>>>>
>>>> ...but it just gave me 127.0.0.1 and not the 10.x.x.x. address...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shell script works nice, but it gives quite a few IP in its result. Plus
>>>> the actual machine IP is located on different lines in the result, such
>>>> as
>>>> in a desktop machine, as opposed to a laptop on wireless.
>>>>
>>>> It just seems like it would be nice to have a built in function for
>>>> reporting local machine's IP...
>>>>
>>>> Such as, "put localIP of current stack into tIP" or "get LocalIP of
>>>> current stack."
>>>>
>>>> Is this available in the dictionary and I'm just missing it?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> John Patten
>>>> SUSD
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