Discovering the Ip address of machine

[poloblue]

Good Afternoon,

I'm new to C# programming and I'm taking Networking this semester. The professor asks to write a program in C# Write a program to discover the IP address of your machine. Also an interesting modification to this program is to give the host name and let the program printout the IP address. So far I have this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;

namespace COMPUTER_IPADDRESS_FINDER
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        

        private void btnCheckIP_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                IPHostEntry hostname = Dns.GetHostEntry(txthostname.Text );
                IPAddress[] ip = hostname.AddressList;
                txtIpAddress.Text = ip[0].ToString();
                txthostname.Text = Dns.GetHostName();

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
            }
        }
    }
}

In advance thank you for your cooperation.

Thank you

[kamilacbe]

Hi..

This would help you to retrive ip of the system.

private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
           // string hostname = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();
            string strHostName = "";
            strHostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

            IPHostEntry ipEntry = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(strHostName);

            IPAddress[] addr = ipEntry.AddressList;

            MessageBox.Show(addr[addr.Length - 1].ToString());
}

[ddanbe]

Also have a look at this.
Use a MessageBow, Label or TextBox to show the strings, intead of WriteString.

[pritesh2010]

Even you can try this method also.

private void btnCheckIP_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
            string HostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName().ToString();
            string UserName = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString();
            UserName = UserName.Replace(@"\", @"\\");
            string IPAddresses = "";
            System.Net.IPHostEntry _IPHostEntry = System.Net.Dns.Resolve(HostName);
            foreach (System.Net.IPAddress IPAddress in _IPHostEntry.AddressList)
            {
                IPAddresses += IPAddress.ToString() + ";";
            }
           MessagBox.Show(HostName + "~,~" + UserName + "~,~" + IPAddresses.Trim());
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
}

[skatamatic]

Are you looking for the internal, or the external IP (or both)? It is not very trivial to figuire out your external IP (the one the rest of the world uses to talk to you, not the one assigned to you by a NAT router) - in fact the only way I know of to do it programatically is to fetch the http sent by a site like www.whatsmyip.com.

[sknake]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Net.Sockets;

namespace SerialTester
{
  class NetworkHelper
  {
    static NetworkInterface[] GetAllNetworkInterfacesSafe()
    {
      try
      {
        return
          NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
          .Where(nic => (nic.IsReceiveOnly == false) && (nic.NetworkInterfaceType != NetworkInterfaceType.Loopback) && (nic.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up))
          .ToArray();
      }
      catch (Exception ex)
      {
        //log4net if (log.IsErrorEnabled) log.Error("Error retrieving network interfaces", ex);
        return new NetworkInterface[0];
      }
    }
    public static IEnumerable<UnicastIPAddressInformation> GetAllUnicastIPAddressInformation(AddressFamily family)
    {
      if (!Enum.IsDefined(typeof(AddressFamily), family))
        throw new System.ComponentModel.InvalidEnumArgumentException("family", (int)family, typeof(AddressFamily));
      NetworkInterface[] interfaces = GetAllNetworkInterfacesSafe();
      for (int i1 = 0; i1 < interfaces.Length; i1++)
      {
        IPInterfaceProperties props;
        try
        {
          props = interfaces[i1].GetIPProperties();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
          //log4net if (log.IsErrorEnabled) log.Error("Error retrieving IP properties", ex);
          continue;
        }

        for (int i2 = 0; i2 < props.UnicastAddresses.Count; i2++)
        {
          if ((props.UnicastAddresses[i2].Address != null) && (props.UnicastAddresses[i2].Address.AddressFamily == family))
            yield return props.UnicastAddresses[i2];
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Calling:

void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      System.Net.NetworkInformation.UnicastIPAddressInformation[] ips = NetworkHelper.GetAllUnicastIPAddressInformation(System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork).ToArray();
      for (int i1 = 0; i1 < ips.Length; i1++)
      {
        System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(ips[i1].Address);
      }
    }