As far as I know, you cannot find out the address on a single machine.
If you have connections between two machines, you can use the socket
getInetAddress.
Alexander
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:44:12PM -0500, Francisco Gongora wrote:
> Hello:
> I have this situation: in my local network I have several machines in NT,
> Solaris and Linux. My java application is running well in all the platforms
> including Linux. One of the Linux machines, however, is reporting the local
> address instead of the ip address when I do:
>
> InetAddress.getLocalHost();
>
> For the rest of the machines I get the real ip address ie. 192.#.#.96,
> however, for this Linux machine I get 127.0.0.1 which is the local address.
> Looking at the host file in the linux machines, we have some differences
> which may be causing this problem, but this file is suppose to be edited by
> the user.
>
> Is it there any way to get the true ip address of a Linux machine regardless
> the explicit configuration placed on the host file?
>
> Thanks
> Francisco.
>
>
>
>
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