Different behaviour of getHostbyName() API in NT and 2K

Ritesh Anand

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13th Feb 2004

I have been using getHostbyName() API to retrieve the IP
Address of a machine by passing the machine's name. But I
have noticed that when the network wire is unplugged, this
API returns the correct IP Address (say : 172.16.4.186) of
the amchine but in case of Win 2000 machine this API
returns IP Addresss 127.0.0.1 instead of 172.16.4.186. Is
there any way out of this.

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