Trying to get the IP off the computer that is running the program. The following code works but if the user is behind a router then it gives the IP of the router and not the computer itself. What do I have to do to just get the IP of the computer?

      WORD wVersionRequested;
      WSADATA wsaData;
      char name[255];
      char *ip;
      PHOSTENT hostinfo;
      wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD( 2, 0 );

      ip = (char *)malloc(100);
	  
	  if ( WSAStartup( wVersionRequested, &wsaData ) == 0 )
      {

            if( gethostname ( name, sizeof(name)) == 0)
            {
                  if((hostinfo = gethostbyname(name)) != NULL)
                  {
                        ip = inet_ntoa (*(struct in_addr *)*hostinfo->h_addr_list);
                  }
            }

            WSACleanup( );
      }

	 printf("Your IP is: %s\n", ip);

if u read the forum faq you will notice an NB which says never try to get the local IP!
when u want to get the Ip of a machine (especially needed while communicating), when the the client first connects to the server u can get its Ip from the accept(..) and save that IP this will be the IP u ll use to communicate with the client , never try to get the client IP locally then try to communicate with it, thiswon't work in all the cases!

Alright, sorry for the post.