I would like someone to tell me how you can get the external IP address of a computer on a lan based network to the outside internet.
If you could tell me this I would be very thankful
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I would like someone to tell me how you can get the external IP address of a computer on a lan based network to the outside internet.
If you could tell me this I would be very thankful
Maybe you could use the socket control. That would probably require the other computer to run your program too, so you could connect them using the computer name and then transferring the IP. I haven't tried anything like it, but it could work. I believe it all depends on wether or not you are able to run the program on the other computer.
I don't know if it helps?
the problem is I can't find a way to get the external IP adress.
I can find the internal IP for myself easily, but to get the external isn't that easy
You can find an IP address by hostname.
Code:' #VBIDEUtils#************************************************************
' * Programmer Name : Waty Thierry
' * Web Site : http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/6311/
' * E-Mail : [email protected]
' * Date : 13/10/98
' * Time : 10:24
' * Module Name : IP_Module
' * Module Filename : IP.bas
' *
**********************************************************************
' * Comments :
' * Find IP address ginving the hostname
' **********************************************************************
Private Const WS_VERSION_REQD = &H101
Private Const WS_VERSION_MAJOR = WS_VERSION_REQD \ &H100 And &HFF&
Private Const WS_VERSION_MINOR = WS_VERSION_REQD And &HFF&
Private Const MIN_SOCKETS_REQD = 1
Private Const SOCKET_ERROR = -1
Private Const WSADescription_Len = 256
Private Const WSASYS_Status_Len = 128
Private Type HOSTENT
hName As Long
hAliases As Long
hAddrType As Integer
hLength As Integer
hAddrList As Long
End Type
Private Type WSADATA
wversion As Integer
wHighVersion As Integer
szDescription(0 To WSADescription_Len) As Byte
szSystemStatus(0 To WSASYS_Status_Len) As Byte
iMaxSockets As Integer
iMaxUdpDg As Integer
lpszVendorInfo As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function WSAGetLastError Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" () As Long
Private Declare Function WSAStartup Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal wVersionRequired&,
lpWSAData As WSADATA) As Long
Private Declare Function WSACleanup Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" () As Long
Private Declare Function gethostbyname Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal hostname$) As
Long
Private Declare Sub RtlMoveMemory Lib "KERNEL32" (hpvDest As Any, ByVal
hpvSource&, ByVal cbCopy&)
Function hibyte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
hibyte = wParam \ &H100 And &HFF&
End Function
Function lobyte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
lobyte = wParam And &HFF&
End Function
Sub SocketsInitialize()
Dim WSAD As WSADATA
Dim iReturn As Integer
Dim sLowByte As String, sHighByte As String, sMsg As String
iReturn = WSAStartup(WS_VERSION_REQD, WSAD)
If iReturn <> 0 Then
MsgBox "Winsock.dll is not responding."
End
End If
If lobyte(WSAD.wversion) < WS_VERSION_MAJOR Or (lobyte(WSAD.wversion) =
WS_VERSION_MAJOR And hibyte(WSAD.wversion) < WS_VERSION_MINOR) Then
sHighByte = Trim$(Str$(hibyte(WSAD.wversion)))
sLowByte = Trim$(Str$(lobyte(WSAD.wversion)))
sMsg = "Windows Sockets version " & sLowByte & "." & sHighByte
sMsg = sMsg & " is not supported by winsock.dll "
MsgBox sMsg
End
End If
If WSAD.iMaxSockets < MIN_SOCKETS_REQD Then
sMsg = "This application requires a minimum of "
sMsg = sMsg & Trim$(Str$(MIN_SOCKETS_REQD)) & " supported sockets."
MsgBox sMsg
End
End If
End Sub
Sub SocketsCleanup()
Dim lReturn As Long
lReturn = WSACleanup()
If lReturn <> 0 Then
MsgBox "Socket error " & Trim$(Str$(lReturn)) & " occurred in Cleanup "
End
End If
End Sub
Sub Form_Load()
SocketsInitialize
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
SocketsCleanup
End Sub
Private Sub Command1_click()
Dim hostent_addr As Long
Dim host As HOSTENT
Dim hostip_addr As Long
Dim temp_ip_address() As Byte
Dim i As Integer
Dim ip_address As String
hostent_addr = gethostbyname(Text1)
If hostent_addr = 0 Then
MsgBox "Can't resolve name."
Exit Sub
End If
RtlMoveMemory host, hostent_addr, LenB(host)
RtlMoveMemory hostip_addr, host.hAddrList, 4
ReDim temp_ip_address(1 To host.hLength)
RtlMoveMemory temp_ip_address(1), hostip_addr, host.hLength
For i = 1 To host.hLength
ip_address = ip_address & temp_ip_address(i) & "."
Next
ip_address = Mid$(ip_address, 1, Len(ip_address) - 1)
MsgBox ip_address
End Sub