On 8/22/13 6:48 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 22/08/2013 13:48, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
getLoopbackAddress is either ::1 or 127.0.0.1 (depending on the stack
preferemces) and InetAddress.getByName("localhost") is also one of
both (but not necesarily the same, unfortunately). This happened to me
in the past, so I wanted to make sure that asumption does not show up
in sample code of JavaDocs. Thanks for improving this!
You're right, this method is returning a specific address. In that case,
I think Chris's point about using the familiar (IPv4) is probably the
way to go when changing this.
Thanks for looking at this.
I had initially used the IPv6 address since it's more forward-looking,
but after reading the comments and after further reflection I'll change
it to use an IPv4 loopback address.
s'marks
