regression: jdk1.7.0_04 java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() return FQHN

[Alan Bateman]

Rob - did anything come of this? Was there a regression as claimed?

On 30/06/2012 13:54, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> Thanks for the test. I'll take a look and get back to you.
>
>     -Rob
>
> On 29/06/12 20:44, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>> Thanks. This bug is indeed fixed in java7u5 on Linux!
>>
>> However, we ran into a new (related) regression when running on OSX: 
>> InetAddress.getLocalHost() throws UnknownHostException on java7u5 on 
>> OSX, which I have filed here: 
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7180557.
>>
>> Run the small test driver program attached to the bug database report 
>> on Oracle java7u5 on OSX. It throws an exception even though it 
>> should not. Note that the very same test driver program runs fine on 
>> java6u33 on the very same OSX host and config.
>>
>> This regression prevents us from upgrading to java7.
>>
>> Wolfgang.
>>
>> On May 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome! Thanks!
>>>
>>> Wolfgang.
>>>
>>> On May 9, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>>>
>>>> I've pushed this into 7u5 which will GA on the 12th of next month. 
>>>> I'll push it into the current jdk7u repo once I get a (positive) 
>>>> response to the approval mail I'm about to send.
>>>>
>>>>    -Rob
>>>>
>>>> On 09/05/12 18:21, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>>>>> Hi Alan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for letting me know. I strongly encourage you all to revert 
>>>>> the behavioral change on Linux and Mac not just in jdk8 but also 
>>>>> in jdk7u as well. This critical java regression prevents us from 
>>>>> upgrading to jdk1.7.0_04.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Wolfgang.
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 9, 2012, at 5:02 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09/05/2012 10:15, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>>>>>>> [7u6] In jdk1.7.0_04 GA 
>>>>>>> java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() return the 
>>>>>>> fully qualified host name (e.g. 
>>>>>>> "ip-10-172-17-93.us-west-1.compute.internal") instead of 
>>>>>>> returning the hostname without the domain (e.g. 
>>>>>>> "ip-10-172-17-93"). This is a regression wrt. all prior versions 
>>>>>>> of jdk 1.7 and jdk 1.6. This breaks applications that expect the 
>>>>>>> old behavior.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> This isn't really a bug, it's always been possible for 
>>>>>> getHostName to return the FQHN, it's just been very platform and 
>>>>>> configuration specific. However there was a behavior change on 
>>>>>> Linux and Mac in 7u4 and jdk8 that came via the addition of the 
>>>>>> Mac port. He has already been fixed in jdk8 as 7166687 [1] and I 
>>>>>> believe Rob intends to get it into jdk7u too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Alan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/b26c04717735
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