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Help me in finding the Server IP from an email address

Hello all,

I want to find the Ip of the machine of the SMTP server, given an email address.... I found there is some way of doing this thorught JNDI or something like that.... But its not so clear.. Can some one please give me a simple example that clearly shows how to do the above purpose?

Thanks in advance,

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thetool721

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jose_sam

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Thanks for the reply..
I want to do it from a java program... I am trying to develop an smtp server...

heyhey_

so you need to implement your own DNS libarary (or find some OpenSource)

jose_sam

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Thanks for the reply..
I want to do it from a java program... I am trying to develop an smtp server...

CEHJ

Or Runtime.exec nslookup until you can find the right libraries

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or if you are using Java 1.4 you can use JavaSoft's implementation

"DNS Service Provider for the Java Naming Directory InterfaceTM (JNDI)"

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jndi/jndi-dns.html

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