Name: rlT66838 Date: 03/13/2000


Classic VM (build JDK-1.2.2-W, native threads, symcjit)

InetAddress.getByName doesn't throw UnknownHostException when it should. For
example, it happily accepts "999.999.999.999" as a valid IP address, although
it appears to store each byte modulo 256, in this case 231.231.231.231. The
following code can be used to verify this behavior.


import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class InetTest
{
  public static void main (String[] args)
  {
    try {
      InetAddress ip = InetAddress.getByName (args[0]);
      System.out.println ("IP address = " + ip.getHostAddress());
    }
    catch (UnknownHostException e) {
      System.out.println ("Bad IP address");
    }
  }
}
(Review ID: 102411)
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