Get address of local host with InetAddress.getLocalHost()

• InetAddress.getLocalHost() returns the address of the local host. This is achieved by retrieving the name of the host from the system, then resolving that name into an InetAddress.

InetAddress.getLocalHost()

package javaexnetworking;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 *
 * @web http://java-buddy.blogspot.com/
 */
public class JavaExNetworking {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            InetAddress localHostAddress = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
            System.out.println(localHostAddress);
        } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(JavaExNetworking.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }

    }
    
}