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Re: get ip behind dchp

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:26
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"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:

>gethostbyaddr() is only useful if you already know the IP address to begin
>with.  Nick is trying to find the IP address, so gethostbyaddr() is not
>helpful in his situation

Interesting. My reading was that he _did_ know the IP address, but
wanted to know if that IP address was fixed, or was from DHCP.

Alan Bellingham
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From: Alan Bellingham <alanb@episys.com>
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