Yurik
28th June 2005 15:07 UTC

How to translate server name to its IP?
How can I translate a server name like mail.yahoo.com into it's IP like 216.109.127.60?

ElvenProgrammer
28th June 2005 17:16 UTC

I guess the ip is not static...else you can ping it and use the ip instead of the dns name.

Yurik
28th June 2005 17:40 UTC

dns is entered by user into my installer and it is needed to transform it to ip programmatically in the installer.

ElvenProgrammer
28th June 2005 18:07 UTC

Hmm sincerely I don't understand the need for a conversion since every socket function can resolve dns names without problems, but that's not my business. I guess maybe NSISdl or inetload could provide a function like that, or you could write a plugin yourself shouldn't be that much of work.

Takhir
29th June 2005 09:42 UTC

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....=gethostbyname

Yurik
29th June 2005 12:50 UTC

Thanks, Takhir, this helps!