On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:35:51AM -0800, William_dw -- Sqlcoders HYSP Admin 
wrote:
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>  I make a (Winsock.dll) dll call to gethostbyname() with the local host
> name, which returns a HOSTENT structure, the h_addr_list then contains a
> null terminated list of every ip, the one which isn't 192.168.? is the
> address to use, except AOL users, who have 2 IP addresses for some damn
> reason, one at 63.? which doesn't work, and one at 172.? which does, so if
> there's more than one IP either select 172.? (unsafe), or fall back to the
> original(ugly) method of making a connection to auto.search.msn.com
> (huge number of connections at any time from dns not found's and
> autosearches so they wont notice a few million extra considering the number
> of users they have, and if you worked out freenet users by requests to
> auto.search.msn.com,that would be everyone who uses iexplore, as we all get
> them every day).

And people ask why software works so badly...


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