Resolving ip-address of a hostname

Question

I have the DNS server IP address and a hostname.

Using Java, how can I find the IP address of the hostname as returned by that DNS server using the IP address and th

Answer 1

As suggested by all above, you can use InetAddress.getByName("hostName") but this can give you a cached IP, Read the java documentation for the same. If you want to get a IP from DNS you can use:

InetAddress[] ipAddress = DNSNameService.lookupAllHostAddr("hostName");