> > So my question is: is it wrong for the localhost entry in /etc/hosts to
> > contain the machine name? [...]
>
> Yes, it's wrong, but it is commonly done on windows and on unix machines
> in the initial installation steps. It should not be left that way
> unless the machine has no network in
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, pdw wrote:
> So my question is: is it wrong for the localhost entry in /etc/hosts to
> contain the machine name? If not, getLocalHost() is broken.
Yes, it's wrong, but it is commonly done on windows and on unix machines
in the initial installation steps. It should not be l
I think that the following the following should help sorting some of
these issues out. There are a variety of issues related to the way the
InetAddress object works. I personally was having a problem getting all
IPs for a multi-homed node, but I think that this also addresses the
issue that you'
InetAddress.getLocalHost() is supposed to return the ip address of the local
host. But on my machine (Debian Linux, Blackdown 1.3, using DHCP) it
returns 127.0.0.1. This makes sense, sort of, because 127.0.0.1 is a valid
address for this machine. but it is useless.
Here is the interesting thin
