Question

I need to find out the external IP of the computer a C# application is running on.

In the application I have a connection (via .NET remoting) to a server. Is there a good way to get the address of the client on the server side?

(I have edited the question, to be a little more clear. I’m apologize to all kind people who did their best to respond to the question, when I perhaps was a little too vague)

Solution:
I found a way that worked great for me. By implementing a custom IServerChannelSinkProvider and IServerChannelSink where I have access to CommonTransportKeys.IPAddress, it’s easy to add the client ip on the CallContext.

public ServerProcessing ProcessMessage(IServerChannelSinkStack sinkStack, 
    IMessage requestmessage, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, 
    System.IO.Stream requestStream, out IMessage responseMessage, 
    out ITransportHeaders responseHeaders, out System.IO.Stream responseStream)
{
    try
    {
        // Get the IP address and add it to the call context.
        IPAddress ipAddr = (IPAddress)requestHeaders[CommonTransportKeys.IPAddress];
        CallContext.SetData("ClientIP", ipAddr);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
    }

    sinkStack.Push(this, null);
    ServerProcessing srvProc = _NextSink.ProcessMessage(sinkStack, requestmessage, requestHeaders,
        requestStream, out responseMessage, out responseHeaders, out responseStream);

    return srvProc;
}

And then later (when I get a request from a client) just get the IP from the CallContext like this.

public string GetClientIP()
{
    // Get the client IP from the call context.
    object data = CallContext.GetData("ClientIP");

    // If the data is null or not a string, then return an empty string.
    if (data == null || !(data is IPAddress))
        return string.Empty;

    // Return the data as a string.
    return ((IPAddress)data).ToString();
}

I can now send the IP back to the client.

Answer 1

I found a way that worked great for me. By implementing a custom IServerChannelSinkProvider and IServerChannelSink where I have access to CommonTransportKeys.IPAddress, it’s easy to add the client ip on the CallContext.

public ServerProcessing ProcessMessage(IServerChannelSinkStack sinkStack, 
    IMessage requestmessage, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, 
    System.IO.Stream requestStream, out IMessage responseMessage, 
    out ITransportHeaders responseHeaders, out System.IO.Stream responseStream)
{
    try
    {
        // Get the IP address and add it to the call context.
        IPAddress ipAddr = (IPAddress)requestHeaders[CommonTransportKeys.IPAddress];
        CallContext.SetData("ClientIP", ipAddr);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
    }

    sinkStack.Push(this, null);
    ServerProcessing srvProc = _NextSink.ProcessMessage(sinkStack, requestmessage, requestHeaders,
        requestStream, out responseMessage, out responseHeaders, out responseStream);

    return srvProc;
}

And then later (when I get a request from a client) just get the IP from the CallContext like this.

public string GetClientIP()
{
    // Get the client IP from the call context.
    object data = CallContext.GetData("ClientIP");

    // If the data is null or not a string, then return an empty string.
    if (data == null || !(data is IPAddress))
        return string.Empty;

    // Return the data as a string.
    return ((IPAddress)data).ToString();
}

I can now send the IP back to the client.