Re: How do you get an "IpAddress" from a hostname?

[monster]

In case anyone cares, this how I eventually did it:
    
    
    let first = hostent.addrList[0]
    let a = uint8(first[0])
    let b = uint8(first[1])
    let c = uint8(first[2])
    let d = uint8(first[3])
    let ipstr = $a & "." & $b & "." & $c & "." & $d
    try:
      ip = parseIpAddress(ipstr)
    except:
      raise newException(Exception, "Bad URL: '" & hostport & "': failed to 
parse IP of address: " & ipstr)
    

Rather ugly, but seems to work.