From ###@###.### (Pavani Diwanji)
Newsgroups: fp.java-interest
Subject: Re: How to bind a socket in Java beta release
Date: 3 Oct 1995 19:07:55 GMT

> Unfortunately, socket.bindToPort() is gone, and there is no equivalent
> in ServerSocket. Looking at the code in ServerSocket.java and InetAddress.java,
> It seems that ms that the local address is gotten from
> private static native String getLocalHostName(),
> which I have no control over.

You have a very valid point. I think in the next revision of the api,
we should add a constructor to ServerSocket for letting you specify an
InetAddress explicitly.

Though I think the correct way to go for multihomed servers is not to
explicitly specify interface address they are listening on, but to make
use of INADDR_ANY (local ip address wild card).

I think for now, I will file a bug so that existing ServerSocket(port, count)
constructor will actually bind not using getLocalHost but anyLocalAddress
instead. This will let people like you do multihomed servers with
existing API.

Pavani.