InetAddress isReachable

[Niklas Andersson]

YO

InetAddress.isReachable only finds localhost

is there a solution to this?
google have not been kind too me...


i have also tried to create a Socket
but when i do
new Socket(address, port);
i get SocketTimeOutException

could there be a connection?

and i do have
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

[Monu Tripathi]

Niklas: what exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to check if a certain IP is reachable from your phone?
From what I have heard, InetAddress#isReachable() might not work as one might expect.

[Niklas Andersson]

Monu Tripathi wrote:Niklas: what exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to check if a certain IP is reachable from your phone?
From what I have heard, InetAddress#isReachable() might not work as one might expect.

basicly
was trying to to find a way to ping an ip with random data

used that with my first attemt to get it to work

right now im starting a new process with the phones existing ping
and processing the output for the information


if you create a InetAddress from string address "www.google.com" for example
the InetAddress will have the correct IP
since that works i dont really understand why
isReachable() does not...