GetIPFromHostName(ByVal sHostName As String) returns empty string?

[Pieter Linden]

Hi,
I guess this question is directed at Randy Birch, but as I haven't the
money to go help him move and clean up his house, I guess I don't have
the right to ask him directly... so here goes.

I'm using a chunk of his functions to resolve Hostnames into IP
addresses and MAC addresses and the like... all of it works fine -
except this function, and I have no idea why... Of course, you'll
probably tell me to kindly put the light sabre down until I'm a real
Jedi... but I don't think that's gonna happen - I'll never be a Jedi.

when I call this:

GetIPFromHostNa me(ByVal sHostName As String) As String

?GetIPFromHostN ame("Argentina" )


?GetHostNameFro mIP("10.0.0.83" )
ARGENTINA

I get no value returned.

Am I just missing something? If so, could some kind soul clue me
in... I'd *really* much rather spend my time doing something useful
than walking around to each computer in the agency (all 100 or so of
them) and writing down stupid stuff I can tell the computer to do...

Thanks!
Pieter