Get Local IP-Address using Boost.Asio

Question

I\'m currently searching for a portable way of getting the local IP-addresses. Because I\'m using Boost anyway I thought it would be a good idea to use Boost.Asio for this t

Answer 1

Here's a trick I learned from python network programming (google) to figure out my machine's ip address. This only works if you have an internet connection and can connect to google.com and does give me my home machine's 192.168.x.x private address.

try {
    boost::asio::io_service netService;
    udp::resolver   resolver(netService);
    udp::resolver::query query(udp::v4(), "google.com", "");
    udp::resolver::iterator endpoints = resolver.resolve(query);
    udp::endpoint ep = *endpoints;
    udp::socket socket(netService);
    socket.connect(ep);
    boost::asio::ip::address addr = socket.local_endpoint().address();
    std::cout << "My IP according to google is: " << addr.to_string() << std::endl;
 } catch (std::exception& e){
    std::cerr << "Could not deal with socket. Exception: " << e.what() << std::endl;

 }