Determining one's own IP address.

[Gregory N. Bond]

In article <5215 at tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl at tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM writes:

	Well, as they say (whoever THEY are!! (-:), RTFM (at least for a BSD
   system):

	   sethostid(2), gethostid(2), hostid(1)

Not on suns.  The hostid is set in a prom, and has nothing to do with
ip address.  Things like mathematica use it for compy protection.

Greg.
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