InetAddress.getByName causes NetworkOnMainThreadException
currIP = InetAddress.getByName(currIPstr).toString().split("/")[1];

private String currStatIP = null;
private String currentStatIPstr = null;
private Integer currentStatIDstr = -1;
private String currentPort = null;
private String currentLocation = null;
private String currUserName = null;
private String currPassword = null;
private Integer currStatID = -1;
public void StatControl(Cursor c, final String[] commandtosend){


    /*the object will always start off with the first 4 fields being the current login information.
     * [0] = IP Address
     * [1] = port number
     * [2] = username
     * [3] = password
     * [4] = COMMAND -- this will be used in a switchcase inside the pingpong to decide what to do.
     *               -- if the Socket is not open, the first 4 fields will be used to re-initiate the connection
     *               -- otherwise, the command is drawn from this field and sent directly.
     * */


    currentStatIDstr = c.getInt(0);
    currentStatIPstr = c.getString(1);
    currentPort = c.getString(2);
    currentLocation = c.getString(3);
    currUserName = c.getString(4);
    currPassword = c.getString(5);
    currStatID = currentStatIDstr;


    Handler networkLookupHandler = new Handler();
    Runnable networkLookupRunnable = new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
             try {
                    currStatIP = InetAddress.getByName(currentStatIPstr).toString().split("/")[1];
                } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
             int portNumber = 0;
                try {
                    portNumber = Integer.parseInt(currentPort);
                } catch(NumberFormatException nfe) {
                   nfe.printStackTrace();
                }
                String userName = currUserName;
                String passWord = currPassword;
                String[] command = commandtosend;

                Object[] controlCommands = new Object[]{
                        currStatID,
                        currStatIP, //InetAddress of String representing the IP address
                        portNumber,     //int representation of the port number, taken from String
                        currentLocation,
                        userName,
                        passWord,
                        command
                        };
                /*for(int i=0;i<controlCommands.length;i++){
                    Log.d("object work","controlCommands[" + i + "] is " + controlCommands[i]);
                }*/

                mainCommunicationThread(controlCommands);
         }
    };
    networkLookupHandler.post(networkLookupRunnable);
}

StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
     StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);