DNS Lookups in .NET

Written by: dimport Published by: thinkt4nk Published on: 2003-06-21 07:19:46 Topic: Dot.Net

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Microsoft know how to make things easy, and with Microsoft.NET most things are at your fingertips. Heres an example of doing a DNS Lookup in just two lines of code.

Not only can you do the lookup, but you also get a IPHostEntry object with all sorts of groovy properties! Just try it out using the following code (this syntax for this example is in VB.NET) Dim objX As System.Net.IPHostEntry        Dim strHostName As String Dim strIPAddressAsString As String         Try      'get the host dns entry         objX = System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress(strIPAddressAsString)      'get the hostname property      strHostName = objX.HostName             Catch ex As Exception        'something went wrong (possibly no entry)   End Try This article was originally written by barnseyboy

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