Finding Out My Own IP-Address

[Ron G. Minnich]

On Wed, 6 May 1998, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
> > When I dial in to my provider via NT-RAS, I'm assigned a dynamic IP address -
> > which is what I'm trying to find out.
> $name = (gethostbyname ("localhost"))[0];
> $addr = (gethostbyname ($name))[4];
OK, I believe this works. But why doesn't 
gethostname
followed by a gethostbyname? no gethostname entry? 

Also why the [4]? 

ron
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