"localhost" as a host-name

[Paul Libbrecht <pa...@ags.uni-sb.de>]

Hi all,


I'd like to address a comment to the Tomcat developpers. This might 
have gone into a bug-report form but its currently down.

Here it is, far simple:

the method stopTomcat of the class org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat 
requests the socket to the local host using the explicit

		new Socket("localhost", portNum)

which, on our Macintoshs who do not assume localhost to be valid 
name, triggers a call to some DNS and further to solve... a bit 
stupid, especially when you're developping in a closed one machine, 
nothing around, network.

May I suggest:

		new Socket( InetAddress.getLocalHost(), portNum )

instead. Finally, after having taken the time to get the code, this 
worked with us...



Oh, and, btw, as we talk about bug-trackers, what about Tim Endres' BugRats ?
Anyone tried it ?? I think there is or must be a ServletInterface, 
email is also provided. Available on GJT.org

Thanks.

Paul