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Question

I am running a server, and I want to display my own IP address.

What is the syntax for getting the computer's own (if possible, external) IP address?

Someone wrote the following code.

IPHostEntry host;
string localIP = "?";
host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
foreach (IPAddress ip in host.AddressList)
{
    if (ip.AddressFamily.ToString() == "InterNetwork")
    {
        localIP = ip.ToString();
    }
}
return localIP;

However, I generally distrust the author, and I don't understand this code. Is there a better way to do so?

Answer 1

For getting the current public IP address, all you need to do is create an ASPX page with the following line on the page load event:

Response.Write(HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress.ToString());

Answer 2

return Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList.FirstOrDefault(ip => ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork);

Simple single line of code that returns the first internal IPV4 address or null if there are none. Added as a comment above, but may be useful to someone (some solutions above will return multiple addresses that need further filtering).

It's also easy to return loopback instead of null I guess with:

return Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList.FirstOrDefault(ip => ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork) ?? new IPAddress( new byte[] {127, 0, 0, 1} );

Answer 3

To get the remote ip address the quickest way possible. You must have to use a downloader, or create a server on your computer.

The downsides to using this simple code: (which is recommended) is that it will take 3-5 seconds to get your Remote IP Address because the WebClient when initialized always takes 3-5 seconds to check for your proxy settings.

 public static string GetIP()
 {
            string externalIP = "";
            externalIP = new WebClient().DownloadString("http://checkip.dyndns.org/");
            externalIP = (new Regex(@"\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}"))
                                           .Matches(externalIP)[0].ToString();
            return externalIP;
 }

Here is how I fixed it.. (first time still takes 3-5 seconds) but after that it will always get your Remote IP Address in 0-2 seconds depending on your connection.

public static WebClient webclient = new WebClient();
public static string GetIP()
{
    string externalIP = "";
    externalIP = webclient.DownloadString("http://checkip.dyndns.org/");
    externalIP = (new Regex(@"\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}"))
                                   .Matches(externalIP)[0].ToString();
    return externalIP;
}

Answer 4

namespace NKUtilities 
{
    using System;
    using System.Net;
    using System.Net.Sockets;

    public class DNSUtility
    {
        public static int Main(string [] args)
        {
            string strHostName = "";
            try {

                if(args.Length == 0)
                {
                    // Getting Ip address of local machine...
                    // First get the host name of local machine.
                    strHostName = Dns.GetHostName();
                    Console.WriteLine ("Local Machine's Host Name: " +  strHostName);
                }
                else
                {
                    // Otherwise, get the IP address of the host provided on the command line.
                    strHostName = args[0];
                }

                // Then using host name, get the IP address list..
                IPHostEntry ipEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry (strHostName);
                IPAddress [] addr = ipEntry.AddressList;

                for(int i = 0; i < addr.Length; i++)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("IP Address {0}: {1} ", i, addr[i].ToString());
                }
                return 0;

            } 
            catch(SocketException se) 
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1})", se.Message, strHostName);
                return -1;
            } 
            catch(Exception ex) 
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: {0}.", ex.Message);
                return -1;
            }
        }
    }
}

Look here for details.

You have to remember your computer can have more than one IP (actually it always does) - so which one are you after.

Answer 5

And this is to get all local IPs in csv format in VB.NET

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Net.Sockets

Function GetIPAddress() As String
    Dim ipList As List(Of String) = New List(Of String)
    Dim host As IPHostEntry
    Dim localIP As String = "?"
    host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName())
    For Each ip As IPAddress In host.AddressList
        If ip.AddressFamily = AddressFamily.InterNetwork Then
            localIP = ip.ToString()
            ipList.Add(localIP)
        End If
    Next
    Dim ret As String = String.Join(",", ipList.ToArray)
    Return ret
End Function

Answer 6

using System.Net;

string host = Dns.GetHostName();
IPHostEntry ip = Dns.GetHostEntry(host);
Console.WriteLine(ip.AddressList[0].ToString());

Just tested this on my machine and it works.