InetAddress.CanonicalHostName Property

Definition

Gets the fully qualified domain name for this IP address.

public virtual string CanonicalHostName { [Android.Runtime.Register("getCanonicalHostName", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "GetGetCanonicalHostNameHandler")] get; }
[<get: Android.Runtime.Register("getCanonicalHostName", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "GetGetCanonicalHostNameHandler")>]
member this.CanonicalHostName : string

Property Value

the fully qualified domain name for this IP address, or if the operation is not allowed by the security check, the textual representation of the IP address.

Attributes

Remarks

Gets the fully qualified domain name for this IP address. Best effort method, meaning we may not be able to return the FQDN depending on the underlying system configuration.

If there is a security manager, this method first calls its checkConnect method with the hostname and -1 as its arguments to see if the calling code is allowed to know the hostname for this IP address, i.e., to connect to the host. If the operation is not allowed, it will return the textual representation of the IP address.

Added in 1.4.

Java documentation for java.net.InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName().

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Applies to