Questions tagged [inetaddress]

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InetAddress get IP inconsistency

I'm trying to go through a list of URL's and grab their IP but what I'm noticing is sometimes it will get hung up on a website and never move on and other times it will skip a bunch of websites. Does anyone know what's causing this? for (String site…
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InetAddress.getByName() failing for hostnames without suffix

I added a static DNS entry into my router, binding some IP address to builds-mac. I then attempted to look up its IP address using Java: import java.net.InetAddress; import java.net.UnknownHostException; public class Testcase { public static…
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I am trying to ping www.google.com using JAVA in my office but it is not pinging the same

I am trying to ping www.google.com in my office network but it is not pinging. Code which i am using is as follows: import java.io.IOException; import java.net.InetAddress; import java.net.UnknownHostException; public class demo1 { public…
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Why the ip address value is and with int 255

I have a simple program to find my IP address and convert it to a String. Why is the b[i] value with (int)255 below? public class FirstSocketProgramming { public static void main (String arg[]){ InetAddress local = null; try { …
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Java Inetaddress getallbyname error

I am using Java InetAddress to find if the current internet connection can resolve an address via DNS. However if I put in a random address (One that definitely dose not exist on the internet) I still get an IP back, can anyone explain why this is…
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Android - getHostName() returns app name?

In the android app I am working on, I am simply trying to get host names corresponding to ip addresses. private class hostLookUp extends AsyncTask{ protected String doInBackground (InetAddress...ip){ int…
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Safe Java Pinging

I have a project that pings all computera on LAN network. First I used InetAddress.isReachable() but sometimes function returns that IP is not reachable() even if IP is reachable(tried with build in function on windows and IP was reachable) . Second…
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Using InetAddress to get own IP

I have an issue were if I try to InetAddress.getLocalHost() or even InetAddress.getByName(String host) it throws an exception every time even for a known website like nba.com I am a bit confused FYI the target device is an android 4.1.1 GS3 and wifi…
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Java - Throwing an exception if user entered invalid IP address or host name

I want to throw an exception that when a user enters an invalid IP address, host name or not a fully qualified domain name it'll bring up an error message. I'm not too sure whether to use unknownhostexception or IOException. I tried doing if…
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Error when using isReachable() in Android

I am a newbie in android development. This is my code boolean isReachable = false; try{ isReachable = InetAddress.getByName(MyIPAddress).isReachable(reachableTimeout); } catch (Exception e){ Log.e("InetAddress", e.getMessage()); }finally { …
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Unable to resolve host Android

I want to send a http request from my Android device using a local proxy. Before to detail my problem, I want you to know this is working well on every device I tried except on the Xperia arc S, and Xperia T, both running under Android 4.0.4. I do…
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android ping InetAddress and editText

I want to input an ip in an EditText box, then give the result in a textView via button ping ( reachable or not) public class MainActivity extends Activity { Button button; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { …
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Current connection info - Java

I am trying to get my program display what the ipconfig command displays in windows. I have managed to get the hostname and the IPv4 address, how can I get IPv6 address and subnet mask? I have tried various things to no avail so far. My code is: try…
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IP Address in Java on Linux

So far I always used following to get my IP Address: InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress() The above method works for Windows but on linux I always get 127.0.1.1 as my IP address. What am I doing wrong?
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How can I catch the exception if IPV6 address is passed

This is my below code and I want to catch the exception if any IPV6 address is passed. Any idea how it can be done in my code? private static boolean validateAnIpAddress(String ipAddr) { InetAddress address = null; boolean isIPv4; …
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