From ###@###.### (Caveh Jalali)
Newsgroups: fp.java-interest
Subject: inetAddress.getByName/Socket bug
Date: 4 Oct 1995 00:39:34 -0700


this is a strange one:

creating Socket(null, <some-port>, false) actually creates a broadcast
socket instead of a socket to the local machine! it appears that the
inetAddress for a null hostname is 0.0.0.0, and trying to send to that
address is obviously a broadcast. getByName() should probably set the
inet address to 127.0.0.1 instead.

the docs for getByName() state:

Returns a network address for the indicated host. A host name of null
refers to any address for the local machine.

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