Here you can find the source of getLocalMachineAddress()
public static String getLocalMachineAddress()
//package com.java2s; /*//from w ww . ja v a 2s.c om Part of the NETLab Hub, which is part of the NETLab Toolkit project - http://netlabtoolkit.org Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Ewan Branda NETLab Hub is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. NETLab Hub is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with NETLab Hub. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.net.InetAddress; public class Main { public static String getLocalMachineAddress() { try { String hostName = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(); InetAddress addrs[] = InetAddress.getAllByName(hostName); for (InetAddress addr : addrs) { if (!addr.isLoopbackAddress() && addr.isSiteLocalAddress()) { return addr.getHostAddress(); } } return InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress(); } catch (Exception e) { } return "Unknown"; } }