IP Address

I'm currently working on a program to communicate across the internet, but in order to do so, I need to be able to detect my IP address. As I am on a LAN, when I try to do this, it returns my LAN IP, whereas I need to get my internet IP. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Az.

Place the winsock control on thr form and a label then add this code.

Code:

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Label1.Caption = Winsock1.LocalIP

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Hope that helps,
D!m

I'm currently using the winsock control to communicate, and unfortunately, when you use the localip property, it returns the IP from the LAN, rather than your internet connection.

You have to start the winsock control after you are connected to the internet to get the Internet IP I think.
I was trying to get the same info and that was the easiest way I found, definately not the best though.

Unfortunately not, I have started the program many times after connecting to the internet, but with no luck.

While searching for the answer to the same problem, I came across a link to the following msn knowledge base page:
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q160/2/15.asp
It has a loop in it to account for multi-homed addresses.

Dip

Thanks, Dip, that code did exactly what I was looking for.