Let's improve IPv6 support

[Chris Hegarty]

On 20/03/17 16:11, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com
> <mailto:chris.hegarty at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>         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.
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>     Sorry, what does this mean. IPv6-only environment with ::1, or no
>     loopback mechanism at all?
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> A system where 127.0.0.1 does not exist (in fact IPv4 is completely
> absent), and "localhost" resolves to ::1.

Ok.

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

Right. This should be fine, but will likely show up mis-configurations
on some of our systems. I'd be happy to help shake out any issues, once
there is a patch available.

-Chris.