On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:01:30 -0800, Christopher Hinds wrote:
>Try using a reverse DNS lookup with that host's IP address , you should
>get
>a fully qualified host name from that. This obviously means you will
>have to use the DNS protocol on an open socket. The problem with NT is
>it is using
>WINS ( NT DNS) to resolve the name and that name returned is a host name
>known to the NT Promary Domain controller and the WINS Service.
>Mark Hofmann wrote:
You should not need to do that much work - the JVM will do it for you
when you give InetAddress an IP address and then as it for the host
name. However, you are correct, the machine would need to be in DNS
to support this.
Note that if you are not DNS named, a fully qualified name will have
little meaning.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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