- use dig before gethostbyname to resolve host names

devser.h

@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ char *DevHostport(DevSer *devser);
 /**
  * \brief return IP address
  * \param a The device serializer to query
- * \return the IP address   
+ * \return the IP address (dotted numbers)
  */
-unsigned long DevIP(DevSer *devser);
+char *DevIP(DevSer *devser);
 
 /**
  * \brief return status of device server ("offline", "unconnected", "")