On 11/11/2013 09:02, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 08/11/2013 16:48, Paul Taylor wrote:
It works okay for me but for a particular customer
InetAddress.getLocalHost() is failing with Java 7 although it works
okay with Java 6 with the following exception
java.net.UnknownHostException: rupert: rupert: nodename nor servname
provided, or not known
at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1466)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: rupert: nodename nor
servname provided, or not known
at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:894)
at
java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1286)
at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1462)
Is this by design ?
This might be another case of JDK-7180557. Any chance that you could
try the most recent build of JDK 8 and see if it duplicates?
-Alan
Trouble is I cannot replicate the problem myself even if remove entries
from /etc/hosts it is only a problem some of my customers are having
Paul
