ip address of client bound to a ServerSocket?

[Dillinger4]

Anybody have a clue how to do this? I need to get the ip address of the host that is bound to a ServerSocket so i can make a DNS check to resolve the client.

ServerSocket ser = new ServerSocket(13);

System.out.println(ser.getInetAddress().getHostName(???));

[crptcblade]

How about the getHostAddress() method of InetAddress?

[Dillinger4]

Posted by crptcblade

How about the getHostAddress() method of InetAddress?

That would almost be the equivalent to what i already have except instead of getting the host name and the ip address using getHostAddress() would just give me the ip address.

The problem i am having is when i use the getInetAddress() method from the ServerSocket class it returns a InetAddress object initialized with an ip address of 0.0.0.0.

[CornedBee]

If you do a netstat, you'll find that all generic listener sockets are shown with a 0.0.0.0 IP address. Only the sockets that actually communicate with a client are bound to an IP.

Why exactly do you want to do this? To find our your own server name?

[Dillinger4]

Ill most likely have to get a handle to the connected Socket via ServerSockets accept() method and then query the socket for the ip address.

[Dillinger4]

Posted by CornedBee

Why exactly do you want to do this? To find our your own server name?

No i want to find the ip address of the clients that are bound to the systems ports.