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From: allen petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: ip address in Linux
>InetAddress just does a lookup on your hostname to determine your local
host
>address. If your host name resolves to 127.0.0.1 (for instance, if the
first
>entry in your /etc/hosts file maps 127.0.0.1 to your hostname rather than
just
>to localhost and localhost.localdomain), then that's the IP address you'll
get.
>
>Unfortunately, there's no way in Java to get any more information about the
>network addresses on your system. So you pretty much have to fix your
hosts
>files. (And no, InetAddress.getAllByName(String host) doesn't do what you
>think it does--it returns all the IP's that answer to a given hostname,
rather
>than the addresses of all the interfaces on a multi-homed system.)
>
>Good luck.
>
>-allen
>
>On Tue, Dec 05, 2000, 13:44, Francisco Gongora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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Impossible!
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