InetAddress - is it broken??

Thu Jun 12 19:52:00 GMT 2003

Hello gcjland:
I have discovered the following apparently malignant behavior in
InetAddress.getLocalHost() on linux. Given the following brainless
test program:
import java.net.*;
public class InetAddressTest {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 System.out.println("getting local host address..");
 try {
 InetAddress address = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
 System.out.println(address);
 } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
 System.out.println("Could not find local address");
 }
 }
}
What I see is this:
getting local host address..
zetar/127.0.0.1
The environment is x86linux (RedHat 8.0), gcc/gcj version as follows:
gcj (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
All documentation I have, as well as relevant experience, suggests that
this is incorrect. Perhaps my expectations are incorrect, however.
Please advise.
TIA,
craig vanderborgh
voxware incorporated