Name: rlT66838 Date: 07/17/97


1. To get InetAddress object for local host, I wrote the source code like the following.

      InetAddress thishost = InetAddress.getByName(null);

   In this case, getByName returns the followings.

      localhost/127.0.0.1

2. As the other way, I wrote the following code to get InetAddress object for local host.

      InetAddress thishost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();

   In this case, getLocalHost returns the followings on my environment.

      icarus/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
      (In fact, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is correct IP address.)

   icarus is the host name for the machine executing that program.
   So, I think getByName returns wrong result.



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