Hi please oblige and review the small change http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~msheppar/8044306/webrev/
to address the issue raised in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044306 hints.ai_family is assigned AF_INET rather than AF_UNSPEC as the native function Java_java_net_Inet4AddressImpl_getLocalHostName is part of an IPv4 call flow, such that AF_UNSPEC allows an IPv6 data to be retrieved as highlighted in bug report regards Mark