Differential behaviour of GetHostbyName( ) API on NT and 2000

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Ritesh Anand

I have been using getHostbyName() API to retrieve the IP
Address of a machine by passing the machine's name. But I
have noticed that in Windows NT when the network wire is
unplugged, this API returns the correct IP Address (say :
172.16.4.186) of the machine but in case of Win 2000
machine this API returns IP Addresss 127.0.0.1 instead of
172.16.4.186. Is there any way out of this ie can I get
the same behaviour in 2000 as I get in NT
 
Just an educated guess, it may be tied to Media Sense which did not exist
in NT4.
Q239924 How to Disable Media Sense for TCP/IP in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=239924

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I have been using getHostbyName() API to retrieve the IP
Address of a machine by passing the machine's name. But I
have noticed that in Windows NT when the network wire is
unplugged, this API returns the correct IP Address (say :
172.16.4.186) of the machine but in case of Win 2000
machine this API returns IP Addresss 127.0.0.1 instead of
172.16.4.186. Is there any way out of this ie can I get
the same behaviour in 2000 as I get in NT
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