[Advanced-java] InetAddress.getLocalHost ( )

[Guneet Singh Sahai]

Hi All,

I encountered a rather strange problem with InetAddress.getLocalHost ( );

Here's my code snippet

   String name = InetAddress.getLocalHost ().getHostName ();
   System.out.println ("Host Name = " + name);
   
   String address = InetAddress.getLocalHost ().getHostAddress ();
   System.out.println ("address = " + address);

Upon executing this snippet on one machine, I get the following output

Host Name = guneet
address = 164.164.128.225
 
while on another machine I got

Host Name = 0.0.0.0
address = 0.0.0.0

The other machine is connected to the network and has a valid IP. Pinging
this machine also works fine. Both the machines are win 2k and I'm using
sun's jdk 1.4.0

Any ideas what could be going wrong ?

Thanks
Guneet 


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