[4706] in java-interest
Re: misplaced method
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Thu Jan 11 12:05:49 1996
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elliotte@blackstar.com>
To: flar@bendenweyr.eng.sun.com (Jim Graham)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:03:41 EST
Reply-To: elliotte@blackstar.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
> getHostName() is the correct interface, but there is a bug in
> getByName that sets the hosts "name" to the IP address so that
> getHostName just returns it rather than doing the reverse lookup.
>
> This should work:
>
> byte addr[] = {129, 144, 86, 116};
> String host = new InetAddress(null, addr).getHostName();
>
This fails because there's no constructor matching InetAddress(null,
byte array) in java.net.InetAddress. In fact there are no
constructors in there at all. (You also need to cast those ints to
bytes but that's easuily done.)
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