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Re: InetAddress.getLocalHost()

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
Cc: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Erik Poupaert <erik dot poupaert at chello dot be>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:24:41 +0100
Subject: Re: InetAddress.getLocalHost()
References: <KIQMITP4XVT21GA2ZULIXT42FADC3X.3ef5acdd@p733><1056291142.7849.295.camel@elsschot>

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:19, Mohan Embar wrote:
 > > Andrew> Out of interest, why do you want to know the local IP address in any
 > > Andrew> case?
 > > 
 > > I am also interested in your answer to Andrew's question.
 > 
 > A lot of peer-to-peer protocols require clients to publish the address
 > that they can be contacted on by other peers. In that case it is nice to
 > know on which interface/ip address the program is actually listening.

Well, okay.  But in that case you really do need to know which of your
interfaces is visible to the outside world, and simply picking an
arbitrary one doesn't help much.

Andrew.

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