RFR: 7180557 - InetAddress.getLocalHost throws UnknownHostException on java7u5 on OSX

[Chris Hegarty]

Rob,

I haven't looked at the changes yet, but I'm curious about the decision 
to use getifaddrs. I know that there was a discussion started at one 
point to determine what Apple's JDK6 is doing to retrieve the local 
machines IP information. Did that discussion lead to getifaddrs?

-Chris.

On 03/09/2013 16:18, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Mac seems to have trouble looking up local hostnames using getaddrinfo
> unless a domain is set. The solution is to add a check with getifaddrs .
>
> This fix replaces a usage of _ALLBSD_SOURCE with MACOSX. I haven't seen
> a canonical answer on whether this is the way to go so I figured trial
> by fire might get the discussion going.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/7180557/webrev.01/
>
> -Rob
>