[2543] in java-interest
inetAddress.getByName/Socket bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Caveh Jalali)
Wed Oct 4 05:18:33 1995
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 00:24:21 -0700
From: caveh@updoc-39.Eng.Sun.COM (Caveh Jalali)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
this is a strange one:
creating Socket(null, <some-port>, false) actually creates a broadcast
socket instead of a socket to the local machine! it appears that the
inetAddress for a null hostname is 0.0.0.0, and trying to send to that
address is obviously a broadcast. getByName() should probably set the
inet address to 127.0.0.1 instead.
the docs for getByName() state:
Returns a network address for the indicated host. A host name of null
refers to any address for the local machine.
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