this should be pretty straightforward: you can determine hostname with InetAddress.getLocalHost(). after that, it's just code.
you probably won't get an address of "localhost" back, though. localhost usually (always?) maps to 127.0.0.1... Douglas E Wegscheid Lead Technical Analyst, Whirlpool Corporation (269)-923-5278 "A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played with conviction is interpretation."