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IP Address

Posted by Vijay Padmanabhan on September 05, 2000 at 5:25 PM

> I am writing a Bean, to be integrated into an installation s/w
> that will need to determine the IP address of the Machine/ System
> on which this software will be run. What is the best way to determine
> IP address.

Hi,

Actually you can make use of the java.net package for this.
The code snipplet will be like this.

...
InetAddress ia = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
String ipAddress = ia.getHostAddress();

This returns a String which has an dotted IP Address representation.

• Ip Abdul April 29, 2001 at 9:26 PM (0)