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Resolve a Hostname to an IP Address

Demonstrates Socket.DnsLookup, which resolves a hostname and returns one numeric IP address.

Background. A maxWaitMs of 0 waits indefinitely; a positive value bounds the wait. Resolved results may be served from Chilkat's process-wide DNS cache.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

set socket = CreateObject("Chilkat.Socket")

'  Resolve a hostname to a numeric IP address, waiting up to 5 seconds.
ipAddress = socket.DnsLookup("example.com",5000)
If (socket.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Resolved IP address: " & ipAddress)

outFile.Close