Re: retrieving local ip address

I am running on WinXP pro sp2 and compile with VC8.0.

Some corrections to my previous post. I don't get a "class not found" 
exception from endpoint::address(), however it returns "0.0.0.0" (I was 
trying to resolve a query with its retval which caused the exception). I 
give you below a part of the code that I have the problem. The cout 
prints "0.0.0.0", is this what it should do before no communication has 
been done through the socket yet?

VirtualPeer(boost::asio::io_service& io_service, unsigned short port)
   : socket(io_service, 
boost::asio::ip::udp::endpoint(boost::asio::ip::udp::v4(), port))
{
   boost::asio::ip::udp::endpoint& endpoint = socket.local_endpoint();
   std::cout << endpoint.address().to_string() << std::endl;
}

Yes I already do the work-around with resolver object but I was 
wondering if there is a better way to do that.

Thank you,
Themis


Christopher Kohlhoff wrote:
> I should take a look at that. What platform are you running on?
> 
> Anyway, you can use the name returned by host_name() to do a lookup
> using a resolver. E.g.:
> 
>   tcp::resolver resolver(io_service);
>   tcp::resolver::query query(host_name(), "");
>   tcp::resolver::iterator iter = resolver.resolve(query);
>   ...
> 
> Note: this is not the same as enumerating the network interfaces on
> the host. Asio doesn't provide any classes for that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
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