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How can I get remote computer's internet address

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Posted By: David_W
Posted On: Thursday, August 7, 2003 02:53 PM

Hi, I try to connect to an embedded computer from PC.

My embedded computer's IP is 192.168.10.1, I can use ftp

connect with it. But when I try to use

InetAddress.getByName("192.168.10.1)

to get InetAddress address, I got exception like:

java.netUnknowHostException: 192.168.10.1: 192.168.10.1

Would please anyone tell me where was wrong.

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Re: How can I get remote computer's internet address

Posted By: Christopher_Koenigsberg
Posted On: Friday, August 8, 2003 06:18 AM

That is a private non-routable IP address, meaning it can't be shared in the global external DNS system. Do you have a local entry e.g. in /etc/hosts for that IP address, giving it a hostname?

If so and it is still not finding it, perhaps your getByName is linked with the resolver library that uses DNS and ignores /etc/hosts? there may be an "/etc/resolv.conf", and "/etc/svcorder" etc. to configure it, so you could have a local /etc/hosts file come first in the order it searches.

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