NPE if the system can't determine its own name and you go 
DNS.getDefaultHost(null)
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                 Key: HADOOP-3612
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3612
             Project: Hadoop Core
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 0.18.0
            Reporter: Steve Loughran
            Assignee: Steve Loughran
            Priority: Minor


In a test case that I am newly writing, on my infamous "home machine with 
broken DNS", I cant call getByName(null) without seeing a stack trace:
Testcase: testNullInterface took 0.014 sec
        Caused an ERROR
null
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.net.NetworkInterface.getByName(NetworkInterface.java:226)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getIPs(DNS.java:94)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getHosts(DNS.java:141)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getDefaultHost(DNS.java:218)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getDefaultHost(DNS.java:235)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.TestDNS.testNullInterface(TestDNS.java:62)

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