Yes, permission is there as on using the IP address directly it works fine. I want to know how to emulate the ping's functionality wherein it is resolving the hostname to IP while inetaddress throws exception. ping not being able to handshake is ok.
Thank you for your time again Regards On Nov 30, 3:04 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Re: ping - Something is blocking ICMP (ping) packets. > > Could be your cellular network operator, or perhaps even the firmware. > > Re: getByName - Does your application have android.permission.INTERNET > in the manifest? > > -- Kostya > > 30.11.2010 12:48, aad пишет: > > > > > > > Hi, > > I need to resolve an host address to ip. > > My android device can ping to the hostname only to resolve the host to > > IP . But when I use InetAddress.getByname, it throws an exception. > > > An excerpt of hyper terminal trace is below. > > > Please help me resolve this issue by letteing me know which api i must > > use as ping is only having DNS resolution but not successful packet > > transmission. > > > Trace: > > > # ping -c 2www.google.com > > PINGwww.l.google.com(209.85.132.104) 56(84) bytes of data. > > ^C > > ^C > > > ---www.l.google.comping statistics --- > > 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1006ms > > > # # > > # > > # # ping -c 2www.yahoo.com > > PING any-fp.wa1.b.yahoo.com (67.195.160.76) 56(84) bytes of data. > > ^C > > --- any-fp.wa1.b.yahoo.com ping statistics --- > > 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1006ms > > > # ping -c 2www.starwave.com > > PING starwave.com (199.181.132.250) 56(84) bytes of data. > > > --- starwave.com ping statistics --- > > 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1007ms > > > # > > # > > The trace of exception by InetAddress.getByname: > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > W/Server( 1122): Connection error: W/Server( 1122): > > java.net.UnknownHostException: starwave.com W/Server( 1122): at > > java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:504) W/ > > Server( 1122): at > > java.net.InetAddress.getAllByNameImpl(InetAddress.java:280) W/ > > Server( 1122): at java.net.InetAddress.getByName(InetAddress.java:310) > > W/Server( 1122): at android..config.Config.getSLPHost(Config.java:169) > > W/Server( 1122): at com.android.server.Server.run(Server.java:211) W/ > > Server( 1122): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) > > > Thanks in advance for your time > > > Regards, > > GSA > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en