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- I've had an iMac for over a year and got an Air when the new ones came out several months ago.
I'm finishing up a Java package that will provide communications among a few mostly headless computers on a LAN on an aircraft but I have only two LINUX boxes to use for testing. One is the "master" and the other a client. I thought that I would use my personal mac Air as another client to see if the system would work with more than one client but it has a point of failure. When either the LINUX master attempts to get the OS-X client name (Lion or Mountain Lion) or the client attempts to get the name of the master what I get is the respective computer's IP address. I use the computer name as a key in a map.
I'm fairly new to Java and quite new to sockets.
Here's the code. ipaddress and hostname are strings
My computers are all connected to a router none is a server.
I've had no response to this question on a Java forum so thought I would try here.
Edit: no exception is thrown or caught.
I'm fairly new to Java and quite new to sockets.
Here's the code. ipaddress and hostname are strings
Code:
try {
InetAddress machine = InetAddress.getByName(ipaddress);
hostName = machine.getHostName();
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
Tell.sendMessage("getRemoteHostName: host name lookup failed for " + ipaddress);
} catch (SecurityException e) {
Tell.sendMessage("getRemoteHostName: Security Exception: host name lookup failed for " + ipaddress);
}My computers are all connected to a router none is a server.
I've had no response to this question on a Java forum so thought I would try here.
Edit: no exception is thrown or caught.
