Friday, July 06, 2001, 12:15:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RL The InetAddress...getHostName() call will use the DNS
DW databases.
RL For most computers, however, this won't return anything useful.
That is not true. Most of US IPs have PTR records. That includes your
own IP, that
Thanks for all the help. It wasn't my code or my ISP, but a security
manager problem...
Turns out the problem was a security permission I needed to define:
permission java.net.SocketPermission *, resolve;
What's unusual is that no exception was thrown to make that clear. It just
failed
