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[sankris]

Hi ,
I am writing a program for ping that should support both IPv4 and IPv6 .. i wrote the prog as such the dot ( . ) and colon ( is searched and variation is found out ...

My question is " if a host name is given , how to convert it in to a ip address " .. Is there any function to convert it .. i am working on windows APIs and VC++ ...

Thanks ,
Chaitanya

[activelobby4u]

i am not a programmer , but if u use the telnet or the host command to convert the domain to an Ip address .. u can actually retreive the value frm a file if u write the results ...i am not too sure about this..but i am sure u ll get better ideas from this post

[sehe]

try http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...addrinfo_2.asp

[activelobby4u]

cool thanks for the info ..