Hi, I'm just trying to connect 2 computers through the internet using Java from different locations (not on the same network) and I've run into some errors..

Here is the code for the server:

public void activateServer() throws IOException {
server = new ServerSocket(5000);
System.out.println("server listening...");
Socket s = server.accept();
System.out.println("server accepted the connection");
InetAddress obj = s.getInetAddress();
System.out.println("request coming from " obj);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
String message = br.readLine();
System.out.println("message is : " message);
br.close();
server.close();
}

and this is the client:

public static void main(String[] args){
        Socket s = null;
        BufferedOutputStream b = null;
        InetAddress obj = null;

        try{
            obj = InetAddress.getByName("192.168.1.123");
            s = new Socket(obj, 5000);
            System.out.println("client connected");
            String message = "Hello there neighbor";
            byte[] arr = message.getBytes();
            b.write(arr);
            b.write(13);
            b.write(10);
            b.flush();
            b.close();
            s.close();

        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

The IP address is the one I got from running ipconfig in command prompt in the server computer so I put it there, I'm not sure if that's right.. I ran the server first and then the client but the server doesn't find the client and the client times out. Am I doing it wrong? Thanks in advance for the help..