How to get ip out of text ip?(cant explain?)

Some ips are like yay.no-ip.org, and i need to be able to find what the real ip is from it ( i know its an api, just which one!) thanks :wave:

There might be something here that could help.

Or this one.

I havn't been up long so maybe my brain is still muddled and I'm missing something here but...

IPAs are numeric by definition...URLs are the easily remembered alpha-numeric designators (yahoo.com for example). If you have a URL and need the corresponding IPA try this code in a module calling vbIPFromHostName.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
 
Public Type hostent
    hName     As Long
    hAliases  As Long
    hAddrType As Integer
    hLength   As Integer
    hAddrList As Long
End Type
Public Const WS_VERSION_REQD As Long = &H101
Public Const WS_VERSION_MAJOR As Long = WS_VERSION_REQD \ &H100 And &HFF&
Public Const WS_VERSION_MINOR As Long = WS_VERSION_REQD And &HFF&
Public Const MIN_SOCKETS_REQD As Long = 1
Public Const MAX_WSADescription = 256
Public Const ERROR_SUCCESS = 0
Public Const MAX_WSASYSStatus = 128
Public Type WSAData
    wVersion As Integer
    wHighVersion As Integer
    szDescription(0 To MAX_WSADescription) As Byte
    szSystemStatus(0 To MAX_WSASYSStatus) As Byte
    wMaxSockets As Integer
    wMaxUDPDG As Integer
    dwVendorInfo As Long
End Type
 
Public Const INADDR_NONE = &HFFFF
Declare Function WSAStartup Lib "WSOCK32" _
    (ByVal wVersionRequired As Long, lpWSADATA As WSAData) As Long
Public Declare Function WSACleanup Lib "WSOCK32" () As Long
Public Declare Function inet_addr Lib "ws2_32.dll" (ByVal cp As String) As Long
Public Declare Function gethostbyname Lib "ws2_32.dll" _
    (ByVal host_name As String) As Long
Public Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32.dll" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" _
    (lpvDest As Any, lpvSource As Any, ByVal cbCopy As Long)
 
Public Function vbIPFromHostName(ByVal strHostName As String) As String
    Dim udtHost                As hostent
    Dim lngIPAddress           As Long
    Dim lngPointer             As Long
    Dim bytIPAddress(0 To 3)   As Byte
    Dim strBuffer              As String
    Dim i                      As Long
    
    If SocketsInitialize = False Then
        vbIPFromHostName = "init failure"
        Exit Function
    End If
    
    lngIPAddress = vbInetAddr(strHostName)
    If (lngIPAddress <> INADDR_NONE) Then
        vbIPFromHostName = strHostName
        Exit Function
    End If
   
    lngPointer = gethostbyname(strHostName)
    If (lngPointer) Then
        Call CopyMemory(udtHost, ByVal lngPointer, LenB(udtHost))
        Call CopyMemory(lngPointer, ByVal udtHost.hAddrList, udtHost.hLength)
        Call CopyMemory(bytIPAddress(0), ByVal lngPointer, udtHost.hLength)
        For i = 0 To 3
            strBuffer = strBuffer & CStr(bytIPAddress(i)) & "."
        Next i
        vbIPFromHostName = Mid$(strBuffer, 1, Len(strBuffer) - 1)
    Else
        vbIPFromHostName = "Lookup Failed!"
    End If
    SocketsCleanup
End Function
 
Public Function vbInetAddr(ByVal strIPAddress As String) As Long
    ' Convert a dotted IP address into a network byte integer.
    vbInetAddr = inet_addr(strIPAddress)
End Function
 
Public Sub SocketsCleanup()
    If WSACleanup() <> ERROR_SUCCESS Then
        MsgBox "Socket error occurred in Cleanup."
    End If
End Sub
 
Public Function SocketsInitialize() As Boolean
    Dim WSAD As WSAData
    Dim sLoByte As String
    Dim sHiByte As String
    If WSAStartup(WS_VERSION_REQD, WSAD) <> ERROR_SUCCESS Then
        MsgBox "The 32-bit Windows Socket is not responding."
        SocketsInitialize = False
        Exit Function
    End If
    If WSAD.wMaxSockets < MIN_SOCKETS_REQD Then
        MsgBox "This application requires a minimum of " & CStr(MIN_SOCKETS_REQD) _
            & " supported sockets."
        SocketsInitialize = False
        Exit Function
    End If
    If LoByte(WSAD.wVersion) < WS_VERSION_MAJOR Or (LoByte(WSAD.wVersion) = _
      WS_VERSION_MAJOR And HiByte(WSAD.wVersion) < WS_VERSION_MINOR) Then
        sHiByte = CStr(HiByte(WSAD.wVersion))
        sLoByte = CStr(LoByte(WSAD.wVersion))
        MsgBox "Sockets version " & sLoByte & "." & sHiByte & _
            " is not supported by 32-bit Windows Sockets."
        SocketsInitialize = False
        Exit Function
    End If
    'must be OK, so lets do it
    SocketsInitialize = True
End Function
 
Public Function HiByte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
    HiByte = wParam \ &H100 And &HFF&
End Function
 
Public Function LoByte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
    LoByte = wParam And &HFF&
End Function