InetAddress Question

Question

I have a small applet that I want to return
the local computer's hostname.
It works, but when I leave the page and return
I get the local loop back as my IP and an exception is throw.
Why is my computer's port being locked by my first call to InetAddress.getLocalHost(). Is there a way to free my broswer or applet ?

Answer 1

Its in the start() method.
I have two <object> tags in my html, that both call the same class file, one of them has a name attribute.
I do an OnLoad in Javascript using the 'name' of the second <object> to call a method (getvalue())to return the value of the IP to the broswer.
The Javacode is
public class GetClientIP extends Applet {
static public String mystring;
public String getvalue() {
return mystring;
public void start {
try { InetAddress getIP = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
mystring += InetAddress.getLocalHost();
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStacktace(); }
}