On 09/17/2015 04:43 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: > Hi ! > > I was suprisingly hit another time by a failing test, where the client > is trying to connect to a server using "localhost" when the server was > listening on "127.0.0.1". > > I think we should get rid of those two Strings in our code (mainly tests). > > There is a way to get the localhost and its name in java : > > String hostName = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(); > > and > > InetAddress hostName = InetAddress.getLocalHost(); > > > This is what we should use. > > Thoughts ? >
Makes totally sense. However I remember that there we had always issues with different Java versions (Java 6, 7, 8), OS (Linux, Mac, Windows) and network stack (v4, v6, /etc/hosts file, DNS). Let's hope the best...
