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

[Guilhem Lavaux]

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:17:44 +0200
From: Guilhem Lavaux <guilhem@kaffe.org>
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To: Ito Kazumitsu <kaz@maczuka.gcd.org>
Subject: Re: [kaffe] java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName returns wrong value
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Ito Kazumitsu wrote:

>>>>>>"*" == Ito Kazumitsu <kaz@maczuka.gcd.org> writes:
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>*> 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.
>  
>
Ah, ok ! So maybe we should sort the addresses by type and put an IPV4 
address first.
I'll do it next week.

Cheers,
Guilhem.


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