Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Getting Local ip Address

require 'socket'
def local_ip
orig, Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup, true # turn off reverse DNS resolution temporarily

UDPSocket.open do |s|
s.connect '64.233.187.99', 1
s.addr.last

end
ensure
Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = orig
end
p= local_ip
puts p

2 comments:

david said...

You got your code from this article: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/get-your-local-ip-address/

Don't forget to cite your sources ;-)

Srikanth Jeeva said...

oops sorry missed it some way :)