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It was thus said that the Great Milind Gupta once stated:
> Hi,
>      I am trying to create a server client pair on the local network and I
> want to find out the IP address of the server. I tried the broadcast method
> but it doesn't work on my windows 7 machine. Is there a way I can get a
> list of devices in the network and try each one of them to find out the
> server? Even if this can be done is it a good idea to do it this way?
> 
>      Any help would be appreciated.

  Are you trying to write the client such that it can locate the server
without being configured with the server's IP address?

  -spc