Discover The Hostname Of Your Local Machine

Expertise: Beginner
Language: Java

August 17, 1999

The class java.net.InetAddress represents an Internet Protocol (IP) address. It has a static method, getLocalHost(), that you can use to obtain an instance of java.net.InetAddress based on your local machine's IP settings. Then, use the getHostName() method of java.net.InetAddress class to obtain the hostname.

The following code demonstrates this:

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