WinSock and gethostbyname() won't return correctly...

I was just messing around with the WinSock function 'gethostbyname'. I did this:

struct hostent *h;
char lpStringIP[20];
h = gethostbyname ("www.heartoftn.net");

sprintf (lpStringIP, "%d.%d.%d.%d", h->h_addr_list[0][0], h->h_addr_list[0][1], h->h_addr_list[0][2], h->h_addr_list[0][3]);


but whenever one of the "blocks" of the IP address is 200+, it returns as a negative number. With the heartoftn.net (my ISP) the first part is supposed to be 207, but it returns as: -49.65.112.11. All of it is correct except the first one. Can someone please help me?

Thanks,
Matt U.

That gave me a HUGE number.

This should work for you:

Code:

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struct hostent *h;
char lpStringIP[20];
h = gethostbyname("www.heartoftn.net");

sprintf (lpStringIP, "%d.%d.%d.%d", (unsigned __int8)h->h_addr_list[0][0], (unsigned __int8)h->h_addr_list[0][1], (unsigned __int8)h->h_addr_list[0][2], (unsigned __int8)h->h_addr_list[0][3]);

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All that the (unsigned __int8) does is convert it to a number between 0-255.