org.netbeans.core.network.utils

Class HostnameUtils

java.lang.Object

org.netbeans.core.network.utils.HostnameUtils

public class HostnameUtils
extends Object

Utility functions for finding the local computer's name.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	getNetworkHostname() Gets the name which is likely to be the local host's primary name on the network.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getNetworkHostname

public static String getNetworkHostname()
                                 throws NativeException

Gets the name which is likely to be the local host's primary name on the network.

IMPLEMENTATION:

• On Unix-like OSes (incl Mac OS X) this is the value as returned from the gethostname() function from the standard C Library.
• On Windows it is the value as returned from the gethostname() function from Ws2_32 library. (without domain name). Note that this Windows function will do a name service lookup and the method is therefore potentially blocking, although it is more than likely that Windows has cached this result on computer startup in its DNS Client Cache and therefore the result will be returned very fast.

Returns:

host name

Throws:

NativeException - if there was an error executing the system call.