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Started by QWERTY April 10, 2000 12:22 PM

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April 10, 2000 12:22 PM

How can I convert any IP adress (www.xxxx.com) to DNS lookup (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)? Is there anybody who knows alghoritm? Thank in advance

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April 10, 2000 01:58 PM

There is no algorithm, per se. You need to connect to a DNS server in order to get the IP address for a given hostname. The transport provider on your computer should do this automatically whenever a gethostbyname() is called.

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