In article <[🔎] 20050213150126.GA2790@projectcolo.org.uk> you wrote: > Resolving the hostname is a standard method for obtaining an IP address > for the machine And pretty broken in a lot of the cases :) It is much better to retrieve the local current IP address of the connection you are going to send the ip (if it is needed). This works at least for TCP. For UDP it should be configurable, a lookup by name is of course a possible default. Gruss Bernd