How to get IP address

[Jp Calderone]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:06:06PM +0100, Nagy L?szl? Zsolt wrote:
> [snip]
> Sorry, but this does not help me. I want to determine the IP address
> because I want to send my external IP address to a dynamic DNS provider
> (in an A record). I get my IP address with DHCP and I'm writting a program
> that assigns a DNS name to a given IP address. So my hostname may have a
> bad IP address assigned at the time when I need the IP address. IP address
> is a lower level than DNS name. I can have an IP address without hostname.
> Can you tell me a solution in the case when I have no valid DNS name?
> Thanks.


  There's a hackish solution that somewhat works -

    import socket
    s = socket.socket()
    s.connect(('arbitrary.host', arbitraryPort))
    dottedQuad = s.getsockname()[0]


  I recommend using something like your ISPs news or email server for the
arbitrary host and port, since these will usually be fast to connect to.

  Jp

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