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help with InetAddress.getByAddress() ?

 
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I have an ip address, but need the hostname. To clarify, this is not the ip address of my localhost. I was thinking InetAddress.getByAddress(byte[] b) would do the trick. But several octets in the ip are greater than 127. For instance, 112.217.200.12 (I made that up). I am thinking the people who designed this class would known this would be the case and have thought of a solution. Does anyone know how to get around the byte value limit? Thank you.
 
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It works same way as reading/writing from/to files using byte arrays. This method uses byte as unsigned.

112.217.200.12 will be this array:

2 middle elements will be negative but that is OK.

Or can use InetAddress.getByName which accepts IP address, too:
 
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Thanks, Vlado Zajac. I would not have known getByName would take the ip as a string --the api does not saying anything about it. Thanks again.
 
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