Is there built-in windows C++ function call that can get hostname and IP address? Thanks.
Is there built-in windows C++ function call that can get hostname and IP address?
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Is there built-in windows C++ function call that can get hostname and IP address? Thanks.
To get the hostname you can use: gethostname or the async method WSAAsyncGetHostByName
To get the address info, you can use: getaddrinfo or the unicode version GetAddrInfoW
You can get more information about the computer name like the domain by using the Win32 API: GetComputerNameEx.