From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,798dee61a5d4581e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-13 07:24:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8F5AB4.C1B95032@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: DNS or IP ident References: <3C8E7D33.7988C01E@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:57:08 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1016027851 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:57:31 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:57:31 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21162 Date: 2002-03-13T08:57:08-05:00 List-Id: > Way #2342: Write your own crippled client-server-app. It is nothing > more than opening a socket and the server should tell you the remote IP. Thanks, Adrian. I could end up doing that, but I was trying to avoid doing something that (may have been) already done. Your other suggestions sound good, and I will study them further. "Tech support" is me and my iMac and OS X.... The "client" is my 71-year-old father who got conned into buying Windows XP for the first computer he ever had. He doesn't type, has no practice with a mouse, and doesn't know "window" from "rectangle on the screen with stuff inside." Considerable confusion reigned for a few minutes when I said cursor (meaning text insertion point) and they thought I meant "the little arrow that moves when you move the mouse." They finally downloaded their e-mail last night after having the computer for four weeks and being on the phone with me for seven plus hours (not all at once). By the way, they have a supposedly new Earthlink account, they've only given the address to less than ten close relatives, they've sent out e-mails only to those relatives, yet their first download was 65 messages, sixty of them porno or get-rich spams. But I'm wondering off of our Ada topic..... -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau