Finding IP address of localhost via socket API (or other API)

[Emile van Sebille]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> The only way I know of is to query an external server that will tell you. 
> There's a few of them out there. Here's a few:
> 

> http://checkip.dyndns.org/
> http://www.showmyip.com
> http://www.showmyip.com/simple/
> http://whatismyip.org/

all four of these show my internal IP of 192.168.x.x in both ie and 
firefox.  Only http://www.meineip.de/ shows the external IP.

Emile