On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, randie ursal wrote: > i want the clients hostname...not server hostname. > > but getRemoteHost returns IP address of client not its dns hostname. > > why is this?
It shouldn't -- that's getRemoteAddr's job. My guess is it's either a bug with your servlet container (although I tend to doubt that, unless it's an old one), or the remote host in question isn't properly configured (i.e. for reverse lookups). Or perhaps you don't have DNS properly configured. You can try the InetAddress.getByName trick someone mentioned, but that may not work as well. If it does work, it suggests that the problem is a bug with your servlet container. If it doesn't work, it suggests one of the other possibilities I mentioned above (there of course may be others). > Emmanuel Eze wrote: > > >use getServerName() if u want the server's ip address > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: randie ursal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:54 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: about getRemoteHost > > > > > >hi, > > > > sorry for this newbie question... > > > > why is getRemoteHost() of HttpServletRequest return the > > IP address of the client accessing my servlet and not the machine > > assign dns hostname? > > > >thanks > > randie Milt Epstein Research Programmer Systems and Technology Services (STS) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
