Question by tDAN · May 07, 2017 at 04:03 PM · network ip address

Calling System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(sHostName) failed

Hi all, This should not be a new problem, but I couldn't find any answers on the internet, here's the detail:

I use:

 string sHostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

to get the host name and pass it to the following code:(the hostname is 'bogon')

 System.Net.IPHostEntry hostEntry = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(sHostName);

but I got an exception: "System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is known..... balabala..."

my dev environment is mac Unity editor 5.5.1f1, hope anyone can help me, Thanks!

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Glurth · May 07, 2017 at 05:07 PM 0

I'm unable to replicate this issue on a PC.

Bunny83 · May 08, 2017 at 08:20 AM 0

I can't reproduce the problem here on my windows machine. I ran your code 1:1 and it tells me my computer network name as well as all IPAddresses asociated with my PC. (which are 10 btw. 7x IPv6 and 3x IPv4). Of course the IPv4 addresses are only private addresses since i'm (as most people are) located behind a NAPT router.