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In this tutorial, you will learn how to get the IP address, hostname, fully qualified domain name and all active interfaces of a local System in Python. We will also learn how to find FQDN for google website in this tutorial.

Source code

import socket
try:
    hostname = socket.gethostname() # returns hostname
    ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)  # returns IPv4 address with respect to hostname
    print('Hostname :', hostname)
    print('IP Address :', ip_address)
    fqdn = socket.getfqdn('www.google.com') # returns fully qualified domain name for name
    print('FQDN', fqdn)
    print(socket.gethostbyname_ex(hostname)) # Return a triple (hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist)

except:
    print('error while getting IP address or invalid hostname!')

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