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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham 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 22:00:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: wv9557@yahoo.com (Will) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: DNS or IP ident Date: 13 Mar 2002 22:00:33 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4a885870.0203132200.48a03788@posting.google.com> References: <3C8E7D33.7988C01E@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.173.188.110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1016085633 25772 127.0.0.1 (14 Mar 2002 06:00:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2002 06:00:33 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21191 Date: 2002-03-14T06:00:33+00:00 List-Id: http://www.geocities.com/wv9557/ Wes Groleau wrote in message news:<3C8E7D33.7988C01E@despammed.com>... > Looking for apps for Windows XP and Mac OS X > that when double-clicked, will display the > user's IP address on screen, OR will identify > the host to DNS. Or both. > > This is for a first-time computer user on > dialup DHCP to receive services from a tech > support person. > > Tech support can push assistance to the client, > but only if the client provides an IP address > or a name for DNS lookup. > > Not very picky about implementation, > but would _prefer_ compilable Ada source > (other language and/or precompiled is OK) > and for the DNS option, would prefer to > read the hostname from a config file, > but a GUI for input is OK.