[kaffe] IP address autodetection

[Dalibor Topic]

--- Timothy Stack <stack@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:46:19PM -0700, Timothy
> Stack wrote:
> > > On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 11:48  AM,
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > > >While trying to get freenet working on Kaffe, I
> discovered a side
> > > >issue... we use the attached code to detect the
> local internet IP
> > > >address. Basically, we open a datagram socket
> to the A-root nameserver
> > > >and call getLocalAddress().
> > > why not just use InetAddress.getLocalHost()? 
> Or,=20
> > Because it doesn't do what we want, at least in
> the Sun JVM?
> 
> Care to elaborate?

I think they do that because Sun's JDK has a bug and
caches InetAddresses forever, leading to problems when
the IP address of the localhost changes (expired DHCP
lease ?). Did I guess right?

> > > useNetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces() and
> handle the=20
> > > NoClassDefFoundError with this method.
> > Hmmmmm... this is supported by Kaffe? We'd have to
> have a fallback for
> > pre-1.4 JVMs, yeah...
> 
> I think its in CVS now.

Yes. Merged in from JanosVM 1.0.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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