How to get the IP address of a machine in C#

Question

How do I get the IP address of a machine in C#?

Answer 1

IPAddress[] localIPs = Dns.GetHostAddresses(Dns.GetHostName());

Your machine doesn't have a single IP address, and some of the returned addresses can be IPv6.

MSDN links:

• Dns.GetHostAddresses
• IPAddress

Alternatively, as MSalters mentioned, 127.0.0.1 / ::1 is the loopback address and will always refer to the local machine. For obvious reasons, however, it cannot be used to connect to the local machine from a remote machine.

Answer 2

 IPHostEntry ip = DNS.GetHostByName (strHostName);
 IPAddress [] IPaddr = ip.AddressList;

 for (int i = 0; i < IPaddr.Length; i++)
 {
  Console.WriteLine ("IP Address {0}: {1} ", i, IPaddr[i].ToString ());
 }

Answer 3

 string hostName = Dns.GetHostName(); // Retrive the Name of HOST

           // Get the IP
            string myIP = Dns.GetHostByName(hostName).AddressList[0].ToString();

//use Following Namespace- using System.Net;

Answer 4

My desired answer was

string ipAddress = "";
if (Dns.GetHostAddresses(Dns.GetHostName()).Length > 0)
{
     ipAddress = Dns.GetHostAddresses(Dns.GetHostName())[0].ToString();
}