Turns out that if you're missing /etc/hosts entries for your machine's host name, then InetAddress.getLocalHost() needs to do a lot of DNS lookups to determine what IP addresses are associated to your hostname. If you're on IPv6, this could end up as a rather large list, too, which takes a while to look them up the first time. Considering LoggerContext.setConfiguration(Configuration) calls this method, it can significantly increase test execution time if you don't have an /etc/hosts entry for your computer.
-- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
