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InetAddress.getLocalHost() returns NetBios name!

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azrael808

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Help!!!

I have been coding a distributed application using java rmi. Up until now everything has been going smoothly. Until I tried my software on windows XP. The line InetAddress.getLocalHost().getByName() produces a String object that represents the computers netbios name.

Has anybody encountered this before? And does anybody know of a solution? I really need the computers hostname (the one assigned by the DNS server).

Thank you in advance.

Peter Green
 
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