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Does someone know how this can be done?

i want to enter a host name through a input edit box

then i want to ping the host name using a command line so that i can retrieve the ip adress of that machine.

so that

vv.xx.yy.zz hostname in the 'hosts' file at

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

basically the problem is that is there some way so that

i can accept the host name from the user.
then find the ip address of that machine using say

ping hostname.com????????

is there any other way i can obtain the ip of the machine.

and add the entry to hosts file as above.

i have the code that writes to the hosts file .

i want some way to obtain the ip of the machine, given the host name in my application .

i know this seems tough. Can you help me with this.

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List244

Well, what are you trying to get the IP of?
A domain? If it is a domain you are trying
to track, you can simply connect to the
domain in place of IP, and then check
which IP you are connected to.

Vlearns

ASKER

no actually i know machines by their names.
so abc.def.com

i want the user to type in this name and be able to retrieve their ip address. i do not know how to do that using vb

pinging might be a primitive solution.
do you know a better way?

computerguy801

If you are using VB.net then this is the best way:

System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName("www.microsoft.com").AddressList(0).ToString()

This will return the IP Address of www.microsoft.com
You just input a hostname and it returns the ipaddress.

computerguy801

If you are using VB6 then you have to use about a million lines of code but it can be done:

This website contains all the code:

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/network/iplookup.htm

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