Get Local IP-Address using Boost.Asio

Here’s a trick I learned from python network programming (google) to figure out my machine’s ip address. This only works if you have an internet connection and can connect to google.com and does give me my home machine’s 192.168.x.x private address.

try {
    boost::asio::io_service netService;
    udp::resolver   resolver(netService);
    udp::resolver::query query(udp::v4(), "google.com", "");
    udp::resolver::iterator endpoints = resolver.resolve(query);
    udp::endpoint ep = *endpoints;
    udp::socket socket(netService);
    socket.connect(ep);
    boost::asio::ip::address addr = socket.local_endpoint().address();
    std::cout << "My IP according to google is: " << addr.to_string() << std::endl;
 } catch (std::exception& e){
    std::cerr << "Could not deal with socket. Exception: " << e.what() << std::endl;

 }