Ugh... sorry. I somehow had an impression that the problem is in localhost
to 127.0.0.1 matching. D.
On Jun 8, 2013 5:29 PM, "Robert Muir" <[email protected]> wrote:

> What do you mean? the bug is ours, if we only bind to a specific address
> (127.0.0.1) and then connect to "localhost", assuming it will resolve to
> 127.0.0.1
>
> There is nothing to "detect". It would be just as bogus if i started up a
> server on 74.125.228.103, and then assumed that anyone typing "google.com"
> could connect to it, because "google.com" maps to like 10 or 11 addresses.
>
> As far as the jvm differences, i have no idea why the resolver behavior is
> different on 1.6 for OS X. maybe the previous behavior was a bug dealing
> the order of names that map to multiple addresses. But it doesnt matter
> anyway. Again the bug is ours by making these assumptions.
>
> 1.6:
>
> InetAddress.getAllByName(localhost)=[localhost/192.168.57.17,
> localhost/fe80:0:0:0:a00:27ff:fec7:f28b%4]
> InetAddress.getByName(localhost)=localhost/192.168.57.17
>
> 1.7:
>
> InetAddress.getAllByName(localhost)=[localhost/127.0.0.1,
> localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1, localhost/fe80:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%1]
> InetAddress.getByName(localhost)=localhost/127.0.0.1
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Dawid Weiss <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Could we add a simple test that verifies if a connection like what
>> you've described can be made? It could timeout after a short while in
>> case there's a black hole or something but at least we'd know a
>> connection is feasible (or not) on a given machine.
>>
>> Dawid
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I think it would be hard to catch this bug automatically.
>> >
>> > again the bug is when someone has something like this in /etc/hosts
>> >
>> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
>> > ::1 localhost
>> >
>> > And then you ask a server to bind *only* and *explicitly* to 127.0.0.1,
>> but
>> > client code is set to connect to "localhost".
>> >
>> > I think if you are consistent it will work either way...
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Dawid Weiss <
>> [email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Uwe -- could this be integrated in security manager's checkConnect?
>> >>
>> >> Dawid
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Erick Erickson <
>> [email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I suspect it's one of those thing that will creep back in as code
>> >> > changes, using localhost seems harmless enough (but we know it
>> >> > isn't)....
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there any chance the precommit stuff could be enhanced to check?
>> >> > Maybe only in the test code?
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Robert Muir <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> >> I think this is absolutely related. But i did a quick search for
>> >> >> "localhost"
>> >> >> in the source tree and found occurrences in src/ and test/ related
>> >> >> code...
>> >> >> if the server is binding ONLY to 127.0.0.1, but the client is
>> trying to
>> >> >> connect to "localhost", it could be causing issues with those tests
>> on
>> >> >> certain configurations (at least OS X + java6)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Erick Erickson
>> >> >> <[email protected]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Dear Lord that's obscure! If I remember right, Uwe advocated using
>> >> >>> 127.0.0.1
>> >> >>> at one point, is this related?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Anyway, I'm glad you were able to track this down!
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Erick
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Robert Muir <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> >>> > Hello,
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > As you know, the jetty test in lucene's replicator module would
>> fail
>> >> >>> > in
>> >> >>> > non-reproducible ways, only on Mac OS X, and only on java6.
>> Finally
>> >> >>> > we
>> >> >>> > got
>> >> >>> > to the bottom of this:
>> >> >>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5037
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > The basic problem is: the server would start on 127.0.0.1, but
>> the
>> >> >>> > client
>> >> >>> > would connect to localhost. At least this one configuration (OSX
>> +
>> >> >>> > java6)
>> >> >>> > behaves wierd on a dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 system, it seems to
>> >> >>> > round-robin
>> >> >>> > thru
>> >> >>> > the 3 entries for localhost in /etc/hosts (127.0.0.1, ::1, and
>> >> >>> > link-local
>> >> >>> > ipv6). This means the test would fail if the resolver picked an
>> ipv6
>> >> >>> > one.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > So the fix was to just use 127.0.0.1 for both server and client
>> in
>> >> >>> > the
>> >> >>> > test.
>> >> >>> >
>> >> >>> > I wonder if the same bug impacts other tests (e.g. solr jetty
>> tests)
>> >> >>> > using
>> >> >>> > jetty.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
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