Java: Finding out my own IP?

AARRRGH · 2007-12-20 01:33:08

Hello Does anyone know how I find out my own IP in Java? Is it InetAddress.getAddress ? Basically I would like to find out my own IP address and then package it as a string. Any help appreciated. Thanks

20-12-2007 02:33AM

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AARRRGH

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Hello

Does anyone know how I find out my own IP in Java?

Is it InetAddress.getAddress ?

Basically I would like to find out my own IP address and then package it as a string.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

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#2 20-12-2007 02:52AM

Giblet

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getLocalHost

You probably aren't going to be able to get your address. Try reading http://whatismyip.org/ it's just a blank site with only your ip listed, could read that in java. (Unless of course you have your external ip mapped to your computer, then getLocalHost() should work.)

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#3 20-12-2007 10:26AM

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http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.net/Local.html

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#4 20-12-2007 11:24PM

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Generally speaking if you're looking to get your external IP address you have to scrape a site like whatismyip.com, or you need to query a UPNP enabled router. That might be of some use to ya.

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