InetAddress - is it broken??

Tue Jun 17 11:49:00 GMT 2003

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Am Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2003 21:56 schrieb Craig A. Vanderborgh:
> 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.

I just tried it here. With GCJ it returns:
getting local host address..
asterix.konqueror.de/192.168.1.3
With SUNs JDK 1.4.1_01 it returns:
getting local host address..
asterix/192.168.1.3
I dont know why your IP is 127.0.0.1. Perhaps your /etc/hosts is 
configured braindead.
Michael
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