Re: LuaSocket: find out current IP address

["Andreas Falkenhahn" <andreas@...>]

On 11.04.2010 at 14:56 Enrico Colombini wrote:

>Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
>> I'm new to LuaSocket so please bear with me if the next question is
>> all too obvious :) All I want to do is find out my current IP and host
>name
>> using LuaSocket. I tried to use getsockname() but this seems to return
>> the IP of my router (192.168.0.1) instead of my real IP. How do I
>retrieve
>> my real IP using LuaSocket?
>
>Your PC does not know the address your provider gave to your router, so 
>(as far as I know) LuaSocket cannot easily get it directly.

Ah, ok, thanks for clearing this up.

Greets,

Andreas
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