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08-17-2009, 07:45 AM
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| how to get hostname and IP address of a machine I want to get the hostname and the ip address of the machine in C on both windows and linux environments. Are there any functions in C which will give me this information? Thanks, Chandana. Last edited by Chandana; 08-17-2009 at 07:54 AM. |
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08-17-2009, 08:09 AM
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| gethostname(), gethostbyaddr(), gethostbyname().
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08-17-2009, 08:58 AM
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| Thanks for the reply. Can you give me some sample code which uses this gethostname(). I am trying to call gethostname() from the main function, but I am getting "segmentation fault" error. |
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| Post your code that is giving you the seg fault.
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