Let's improve IPv6 support

Mon Mar 20 16:11:58 UTC 2017

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
>> I should point out that the current batch of changes are focused on
>> support for systems where 127.0.0.1 doesn't exist, which is relatively
>> straightforward and unexciting.
>>
>
> Sorry, what does this mean. IPv6-only environment with ::1, or no
> loopback mechanism at all?

A system where 127.0.0.1 does not exist (in fact IPv4 is completely
absent), and "localhost" resolves to ::1.

A simple but pervasive change to global replace testing code via:
s/"127.0.0.1"/ InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress().getHostAddress()/g
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