Hi Could you please tell the code to get the IPaddress of my machine Sijo
Sijo k g (sijo)
on 2009-01-06 06:49
Roger Pack (rogerdpack)
on 2009-01-06 07:23
Sijo Kg wrote: > Hi > Could you please tell the code to get the IPaddress of my machine This might work: class Socket class << self def get_ip hostName begin ipInt = gethostbyname(hostName)[3] return "%d.%d.%d.%d" % [ipInt[0].ord, ipInt[1].ord, ipInt[2].ord, ipInt[3].ord] rescue SocketError # bizarre, but happens return '' end end def get_host_ip begin ip = Socket.getaddrinfo(Socket.gethostname, nil, Socket::AF_UNSPEC, Socket::SOCK_STREAM, nil, Socket::AI_CANONNAME).select{|type| type[0] == 'AF_INET'}[0][3] # ltodo hmm we don't want it to do the reverse lookups! raise if ip.blank? return ip rescue => e get_ip(Socket.gethostname) # less accurate or something, I guess end end end end
Sijo k g (sijo)
on 2009-01-06 08:17
Hi Thanks for the reply But please give an example to instantiate an object of this class also Sijo
Brian Candler (candlerb)
on 2009-01-06 10:06
Sijo Kg wrote:
> Could you please tell the code to get the IPaddress of my machine
Your machine may have multiple IP addresses, but assuming its hostname
has been set up properly, the following may do the trick:
require 'socket'
ip = IPSocket.getaddress(Socket.gethostname)
ab5tract (Guest)
on 2009-01-06 21:35
> Sijo Kg wrote: > > Could you please tell the code to get the IPaddress of my machine Another way to do this: require 'ipaddr' require 'net/http' def get_ip con = Net::HTTP.new('checkip.dyndns.org', 80) resp,body = con.get("/", nil) ip = body.match(/\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+/) ip[0] end my_ip = IPAddr.new(get_ip) I had to do this as a work around before, though if I was working around an issue with Socket.gethostname or my own ignorance I can no longer tell ;)
Gary Wright (Guest)
on 2009-01-06 23:13
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:15 PM, ab5tract wrote: > ip[0] > end > > my_ip = IPAddr.new(get_ip) > > I had to do this as a work around before, though if I was working > around an issue with Socket.gethostname or my own ignorance I can no > longer tell ; It is important to realize that this method won't take into account any sort of NAT device that may be between you and an external website. Whether that is important or not depends on the reason for needing an IP address in the first place.
Roger Pack (rogerdpack)
on 2009-01-07 07:03
Roger Pack wrote: > Sijo Kg wrote: >> Hi >> Could you please tell the code to get the IPaddress of my machine heh it was for 1.9 anyway :) let's see require 'socket' class Fixnum def ord self end end # the code above Socket.get_host_ip
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