site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) Hi Mark! Folks. Assuming you're using C and the BSD API you could use something like this. #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> #include <errno.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { int s; struct sockaddr_in sin; int slen; if(argc == 1) { printf("Usage: %s <ip>\n", argv[0]); return -1; } // Connect to port 80 somewhere s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); memset(&sin, 0, sizeof(sin)); sin.sin_family = PF_INET; sin.sin_port = htons(80); sin.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(argv[1]); if(connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin)) < 0) { perror("connect()"); return -1; } // Get socket's local name memset(&sin, 0, sizeof(sin)); slen = sizeof(sin); if(getsockname(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, &slen) < 0) { perror("getsockname()"); close(s); return -1; } printf("Local IP is %s\n", inet_ntoa(sin.sin_addr)); // The local port is available in ntohs(sin.sin_port) close(s); return 0; } Here's a sample run: insight$ ./1 127.0.0.1 # Use the loopback interface Local IP is 127.0.0.1 insight$ ./1 216.239.59.99 # Google IP, will use external interface Local IP is 194.18.12.187 insight$ As you can see, this code will show you the IP of the outgoing interface, which may or may not be the IP the peer sees due to NAT, as pointed out in other posts. getsockname(3) will get you information about the local peer and getpeername(3) will do the same, but for the remote peer. -- noah _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Mark Gilbert wrote: I have setup a very simple socket from one machine to another. I want to send back very very simple HTML. within the HTML I need to include my own IP address, but I am not sure how to get it. I tried gethostbyname("localhost"), but this returns 127.0.0.1 which works on the local machine, but is not my address on the network. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com