On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:18:55PM +0000, Timm Murray wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:01:46PM +0100, Jan-Thomas Czornack wrote: > > > String hostname = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(); > > > InetAddress[] ips = InetAddress.getAllByName(hostname); > > > > > > I used that long time ago, I hope it does what I think it should do... > > > (return some ip's, including the wanted one) > > > > Yeah, it works on my computer, but not on everybody's. I'm not sure > > why. > > I tried this last night on my system; it gave the localhost address but not > the address for my ethernet card (which is in the class C private address > space). It could be that it ignores private addresses (which would be dumb), > or it's something VM specific (I'm running IBM 1.3).
I have tried it on a number of PCs and JVMs, and it simply does not work in a predictable manner. I think this simply goes beyond what can be achieved in a platform independently. -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
