hi all.. i encounter a problem. I have a servlet that is deploy in apache tomcat which is running the linux OS. I need to get the inet address in order to let client access the server.

I coded these lines of code in my servlet:

InetAddress localhost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
String hostAddr = localhost.getHostAddress();

However, i encounter null for hostAddr but it works perfectly well in Windows. I want to get the ip address of the server, example: 203.204.423.52 and not 127.0.0.1.

Anyone knows how to solve the above issue? Do i need to make any changes to the coding to cater for linux? Any suggestion or comment is welcome. Thanks!

I got "127.0.0.1" for that rather than null.
Anyway one way to overcome this is to use the NetworkInterface class instead to get the ip address for the interface that you want. The class is only in j2se 1.4 or greater though.

Is there a way to make the original code work??