Finds this computer's global IP address

      
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.Inet4Address;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Util{

  /**
   * Finds this computer's global IP address
   * 
   * @return The global IP address, or null if a problem occurred
   */
  public static Inet4Address getGlobalAddress()
  {
    try
    {
      URLConnection uc = new URL( "http://www.whatismyip.org/" ).openConnection();
      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( uc.getInputStream() ) );
      return ( Inet4Address ) InetAddress.getByName( br.readLine() );
    }
    catch( MalformedURLException e )
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch( IOException e )
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return null;

  }
}

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