Getting the 'external' IP address in Java

Question

I\'m not too sure how to go about getting the external IP address of the machine as a computer outside of a network would see it.

My following IPAddress class only g

Answer 1

How about this? It's simple and worked the best for me :)

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;


public class IP {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        new IP();
    }

    public IP() {
        URL ipAdress;

        try {
            ipAdress = new URL("http://myexternalip.com/raw");

            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ipAdress.openStream()));

            String ip = in.readLine();
            System.out.println(ip);
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}