GetServerIP plugin?

[Primogenitor]

Does anyone know of / can someone make a GetServerIP function? The reason behind this is for use in conjunction with Letoscript. As you may know already, NWNX-Letoscript is a plugin for NWNX that gives the power of Leto via scripting. For PCs however, the only way to change their file is to edit their .bic directly and then have them reload, normally by booting them and having them rejoin. As an alternative to booting, you can use ActivatePortal to portal the player back to the same server. This is much neater, avoids the "reusing custom content in the same sessions crashes the client" bug, and stops other players from jumping into your slot on a busy server. However, the downside of that is that you have to know the IP of the server in order to put it in the script and whenever the IP changes, you have to change the script. Not a big issue for large servers since they would have a fixed IP or a web address, but for small PWs / LAN it can be a problem.

Bioware provided a GetPCIPAddress function, but nothing for getting the IP of the server. I know nothing about programming other than NWScript, so I wouldnt know where to start with a NWNX plugin let alone getting an IP address. I imagine its quite a simple task to do; websites such as www.whatismyip.com can do it very quickly.

Anyone? Please, pretty please?

[Alosynth]

Could you use 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1'? I know connecting a client to a server running on the same machine rather than putting my LAN IP in, I use localhost:5212. Or does this cause the client to try and connect to their own PC when you pass it through ActivatePortal?

[NoMercy]

In many ways your better off hardcoding the IP address, if you use a NAT router/cablemodem theres no way windows on it's own can tell your public IP, and you'd have to connect out to a website like whatismyip.com to get the information, and there's no guarantie there server will be running when you want to use it.

Two slightly better sites to use for automated reading:
http://checkip.dyndns.org/
http://www.showmyip.com/xml/


I don't think you'd get away with specifing 127.0.0.1, as the IP gets sent to the users machine to connect to, ideally you should try and get a static IP address for your server anyway.

[Grinning Fool]