RFR: 8220083: Use InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress() in place of 127.0.0.1 for some tests

[Chris Hegarty]

Martin,

On 13/03/2019 17:29, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> The difficulty of testing networking environments is an impediment to 
> progress.
> Chris, you might want to publish your hacky changes as an experimental 
> patch in cr.openjdk.

I will do this, but, as I said, it is just a hack.

> At Google, we have our own hacks to test ipv6-only environments, based 
> on either LD_PRELOAD or eBPF (but it would take work to share them even 
> in minimally functional form)

Maybe I can produce something similar and publish it? So you intercept
setsocktopt, lookups? What else?

-Chris.