Getting the IP address of the current machine using Java

Question

I am trying to develop a system where there are different nodes that are run on different system or on different ports on the same system.

Now all the nodes create

Answer 1

This gets the IP address of your network if your machine is part of a network

try {
    System.out.println(InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress());
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 2

You can use java's InetAddress class for this purpose.

InetAddress IP=InetAddress.getLocalHost();
System.out.println("IP of my system is := "+IP.getHostAddress());

Output for my system = IP of my system is := 10.100.98.228

getHostAddress() returns

Returns the IP address string in textual presentation.

OR you can also do

InetAddress IP=InetAddress.getLocalHost();
System.out.println(IP.toString());

Output = IP of my system is := RanRag-PC/10.100.98.228

Answer 3

Use InetAddress.getLocalHost() to get the local address

import java.net.InetAddress;

try {
  InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getLocalHost();            
  System.out.println(addr.getHostAddress());
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
}

Answer 4

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.NetworkInterface;
import java.util.Enumeration;

public class IpAddress {

NetworkInterface ifcfg;
Enumeration<InetAddress> addresses;
String address;

public String getIpAddress(String host) {
    try {
        ifcfg = NetworkInterface.getByName(host);
        addresses = ifcfg.getInetAddresses();
        while (addresses.hasMoreElements()) {
            address = addresses.nextElement().toString();
            address = address.replace("/", "");
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return ifcfg.toString();
}
}

Answer 5

Posting here tested IP ambiguity workaround code from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCS-40 (InetAddress.getLocalHost() ambiguous on Linux systems):

/**
 * Returns an <code>InetAddress</code> object encapsulating what is most likely the machine's LAN IP address.
 * <p/>
 * This method is intended for use as a replacement of JDK method <code>InetAddress.getLocalHost</code>, because
 * that method is ambiguous on Linux systems. Linux systems enumerate the loopback network interface the same
 * way as regular LAN network interfaces, but the JDK <code>InetAddress.getLocalHost</code> method does not
 * specify the algorithm used to select the address returned under such circumstances, and will often return the
 * loopback address, which is not valid for network communication. Details
 * <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4665037">here</a>.
 * <p/>
 * This method will scan all IP addresses on all network interfaces on the host machine to determine the IP address
 * most likely to be the machine's LAN address. If the machine has multiple IP addresses, this method will prefer
 * a site-local IP address (e.g. 192.168.x.x or 10.10.x.x, usually IPv4) if the machine has one (and will return the
 * first site-local address if the machine has more than one), but if the machine does not hold a site-local
 * address, this method will return simply the first non-loopback address found (IPv4 or IPv6).
 * <p/>
 * If this method cannot find a non-loopback address using this selection algorithm, it will fall back to
 * calling and returning the result of JDK method <code>InetAddress.getLocalHost</code>.
 * <p/>
 *
 * @throws UnknownHostException If the LAN address of the machine cannot be found.
 */
private static InetAddress getLocalHostLANAddress() throws UnknownHostException {
    try {
        InetAddress candidateAddress = null;
        // Iterate all NICs (network interface cards)...
        for (Enumeration ifaces = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(); ifaces.hasMoreElements();) {
            NetworkInterface iface = (NetworkInterface) ifaces.nextElement();
            // Iterate all IP addresses assigned to each card...
            for (Enumeration inetAddrs = iface.getInetAddresses(); inetAddrs.hasMoreElements();) {
                InetAddress inetAddr = (InetAddress) inetAddrs.nextElement();
                if (!inetAddr.isLoopbackAddress()) {

                    if (inetAddr.isSiteLocalAddress()) {
                        // Found non-loopback site-local address. Return it immediately...
                        return inetAddr;
                    }
                    else if (candidateAddress == null) {
                        // Found non-loopback address, but not necessarily site-local.
                        // Store it as a candidate to be returned if site-local address is not subsequently found...
                        candidateAddress = inetAddr;
                        // Note that we don't repeatedly assign non-loopback non-site-local addresses as candidates,
                        // only the first. For subsequent iterations, candidate will be non-null.
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        if (candidateAddress != null) {
            // We did not find a site-local address, but we found some other non-loopback address.
            // Server might have a non-site-local address assigned to its NIC (or it might be running
            // IPv6 which deprecates the "site-local" concept).
            // Return this non-loopback candidate address...
            return candidateAddress;
        }
        // At this point, we did not find a non-loopback address.
        // Fall back to returning whatever InetAddress.getLocalHost() returns...
        InetAddress jdkSuppliedAddress = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
        if (jdkSuppliedAddress == null) {
            throw new UnknownHostException("The JDK InetAddress.getLocalHost() method unexpectedly returned null.");
        }
        return jdkSuppliedAddress;
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        UnknownHostException unknownHostException = new UnknownHostException("Failed to determine LAN address: " + e);
        unknownHostException.initCause(e);
        throw unknownHostException;
    }
}