Winsock Help

Well I'm not the best Winsock user. I dont know alot about it and I plan to fix that. I'm going to make a test chat program that will connect between 2 comps so we can chat. I basicly dont even really know where to start except to make a connection. Here is what I have for the client:

Winsock.RemoteHost = "127.0.0.1"
Winsock.RemotePort = 15151
Winsock.Connect

That will be run on a command button. The thing is, I dont want to have to have the IP in order to connect. That would mean I could only chat to one person, none if I didn't know anyones IP. I know there is another way of connecting, but I cant exactly remember how it went. Help anyone?

You've either got to have the IPA you are trying to connect to, a valid domain name or a publicly accesible server (at either a known IPA or domain) which will facilitate the connection.

Conversly, you could run as a server and make the other person determine your IPA in order to start a chat session but peer-to-peer communications require that at least one peer know the other's IPA.

Well is there a way to get your program to automaticly determine the others IPA?

I'm reviving this, because im still having trouble. One thing, the domain name is not working. I tested it on my other computer and its not connecting, but I have the right one, I think anyways. I dont really know how to get IPA either. Any ideas?

You can run IPCONFIG to get the current local IP address. I have a program that does it also, but doesn't interface to anything else. It's kind of long, too.

Could you point out where to get it? By the way im testing the IP connection and here is the code I have:

With Winsock
.RemoteHost = "24.23.xxx.124" 'Changed to xxx cuse I dont like giving out my IP
.RemotePort = 1002
.Bind 1001
End With

The Remote host is my IPA, and its the same code for both the Client and Server. It's not working though, and I don't know why. Any Idea? I would like to know how to run that IPCONFIG though dglienna.

Here is the code that will open the results of IPCONFIG as a text document.
You can use 127.0.0.1 as your local IP address, btw. That way, you don't have to change it when your address changes.