HostNameToAddress Replacement

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 11/22/06, Bridger Maxwell <bridgeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>   I have a friend who's iMac G5 seems to dislike the hostNameToAddress()
> function.  She is trying to help me develop a program, but without that
> function she can't run my networking system and that makes it extremely
> difficult for her to help.  I am looking for a replacement to the
> hostNameToAddress() function.  All it has to do is retrieve the IP address
> of the machine it is running on.  It doesn't have to be particularly clean
> either, it only has to run on her computer, not the computers we are
> distributing to.  Does anybody have any ideas?

Here is a neat function that appeared on this list a few weeks ago, I
think from Dar Scott.

function getLocalIPAddress
  put "255.255.255.255:6000" into tCheckAddress
  open datagram socket to tCheckAddress
  put the hostAddress of tCheckAddress into tMyIP
  close socket tCheckAddress

  return tMyIP
end getLocalIPAddress

Cheers,
Sarah