I think that the following the following should help sorting some of these issues out. There are a variety of issues related to the way the InetAddress object works. I personally was having a problem getting all IPs for a multi-homed node, but I think that this also addresses the issue that you're having. Anyway, supposedly a fix for this behavior is coming with Merlin. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4327220.html pdw wrote: > > InetAddress.getLocalHost() is supposed to return the ip address of the local > host. But on my machine (Debian Linux, Blackdown 1.3, using DHCP) it > returns 127.0.0.1. This makes sense, sort of, because 127.0.0.1 is a valid > address for this machine. but it is useless. > > Here is the interesting thing. my /etc/hosts looks like this: > > 127.0.0.1 aganthapus localhost > > but if I change it to this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > then it works correctly! "aganthapus" is the machine name, and I guess > debian put it in there. I think this makes sense because getLocalHost() > does this: > > localHost = getAllByName(localHost.hostName)[0]; > > so it finds the first entry that matches "aganthapus", which is 127.0.0.1. > So my question is: is it wrong for the localhost entry in /etc/hosts to > contain the machine name? If not, getLocalHost() is broken. > > Paul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jesse Erdmann Engineer Secure Computing Corp. Tel. (651) 628-1535 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
