If the first entry of /etc/hosts is localhost on Solaris, the getLocalHost call will return "localhost".


dale.mcduffie@Eng 1998-09-30
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A customer reports that this bug is in fact not fixed in 1.2beta4: they are not
using NIS. I am unable to find a non-NIS machine, but believe that the customer
is correct. Here is the call with the test case:

Bug #4073539 describes how java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost()
returns the first entry in /etc/hosts instead of the correct
address. That bug page is labeled "closed, fixed in 1.2beta4,
1998-04-13". However, the bug is still present in 1.2beta4
on my Solaris 2.6 system, as seen below.


[baskerville] uname -a
SunOS baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU 5.6 Generic_105181-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
[baskerville] java -version
java version "1.2beta4"
Classic VM (build JDK-1.2beta4-K, green threads, sunwjit)
[baskerville] java -fullversion
java full version "JDK-1.2beta4-K"
[baskerville]
[baskerville] cat t.java

import java.net.*;

class t {
    public static void main (String args[]) {
        try {
            System.out.println(InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

[baskerville]
[baskerville] javac t.java
[baskerville] java t
localhost
[baskerville]