[kaffe] java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName returns wrong value for localhost

Ito Kazumitsu kaz at maczuka.gcd.org
Wed Sep 10 15:58:02 PDT 2003


>>>>> "*" == Ito Kazumitsu <kaz at maczuka.gcd.org> writes:

*> It does not throw exception now.  But I would like to get 
*> localhost/127.0.0.1 rather than localhost/::::::::1 .
*> 
*> I do not see why getHostByName returns an IPV6 address.

Because getaddrinfo() returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
for "localhost" and IPv6 first.




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