InetAddress.getLocalHost() returns APIPA/link-local address in a Windows 2008 SP2 or later version Windows OS with multiple-NICs.

[Alan Bateman]

On 29/11/2011 02:11, Charles Lee wrote:
> You are right. The ipv4 will appear in front of ipv6, but the order of 
> ipv4 or ipv6 (separately) will not be sorted.
Right, but it means that if the host has at least one IPv4 address then 
it will be chosen and the IPv6 addresses will be ignored. I should say 
that I don't have an issue with doing something about this but I'm 
trying to understand how this issue arises. I'm guessing that either the 
host is IPv6 only or that somehow the host name is resolving to a list 
that includes a 169.254.0.0/16 address.

-Alan.
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