How do you create an InetAddress from a String.

[jseidelREMOVECAPS]

I need to create a socket connection to a site.
String name = "elektra.usm.com"
socket sock = new socket( name, port );

This wont work because the name isn't an ip address. I need to create
an InetAddress from it. How do I do that?

Jerry

[Gordon Beaton]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:51:03 GMT, js***************@maine.rr.com wrote:

I need to create a socket connection to a site.

String name = "elektra.usm.com"
socket sock = new socket( name, port );

This wont work because the name isn't an ip address.
Yes it will, because the Socket constructor will gladly accept either
a hostname or an InetAddress.

I need to create an InetAddress from it. How do I do that?

You don't need to.

However InetAddress has a factory method that takes a hostname and
returns an InetAddress instance.

/gordon

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