On Wed, 31 May 2000, Vivin Kumar P wrote:
> My question is how to find the machine name of a client connected to my
> server.....The server and client will be
> inside a LAN.
Is the LAN connected to the net? If not, you cannot do it, because there
is no DNS service to inform InetAddress about the mapping between names
and IP addresses... A similar situation may arise if you are behind a
firewall. If it suits your application, you'd be better off with
a static lookup table, perhaps a file to be read at runtime.
Kostas
>
> The code I used was.....
>
> System.out.println("We serviced a client from IP:" + client.getInetAddress
> () );
> System.out.println("Client's host name:" + ((client.getInetAddress
> ()).getHostName() ) );
>
> But the output I got was....
>
> We serviced a client from IP:10.32.16.155/10.32.16.155
> Client's host name:10.32.16.155
>
> Is there a way to find the host name?
> Any information in this regard is appreciated.....
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Vivin.
>
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