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Re:misplaced method
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Fri Jan 12 14:22:46 1996
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elliotte@blackstar.com>
To: John Scharles <johns@fishnet.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:16:02 EST
Reply-To: elliotte@blackstar.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
> Arthur's answer to my original question showed that getByName can
> take a string of the IP address, so this works fine:
>
> InetAddress a = InetAddress.getByName("129.144.86.116");
>
This depends on what you want to do. If you want to open a socket to
this address, then this is sufficient. On the other hand if you
actually want the name instead of the IP number, (for instance for a
server log processing application) this doesn't work.
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