OpenEuphoria

Re: Detecting a internet connection

• Posted by bonn ortloff <kc7yrh at HOTMAIL.COM> Aug 03, 1998
• 538 views

>Date:         Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:01:02 -0400
>Reply-To:     Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
<EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>From:         Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Detecting a internet connection
>To:           EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>
>Greg Harris wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. Where I work in my mundane job, I can't get out of the
firewall but
>> I can resolve hostnames.
>> You can check the IP address (should be 0.0.0.0) if not connected,
but on a
>> network I have a IP address. So that blows that one. However if the
IP
>> address is 0.0.0.0 it should reflect a dialup user right?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>Greg:
>
>Last night while I was xperimenting with POPck, I was using winsock
>GetIP
>to return the host address; It worked fine. When the connection
dropped,
>it reported  (I think) 127.0.0.1 (localhost). Before dialing, there was
>something else (error code?)
>
>I can't get it to work at all tonight. Too tired to see the screen
>clearly,
>I guess. Tomorrow is another day.
>
>Irv
>

127.0.0.1 is you, basically. if you telnetted 127.0.0.1, I dunno what
would happen, but it would be you. (finger is better)


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