[jira] Work stopped: (HDFS-116) NPE if the system can't determine its own name and you go DNS.getDefaultHost(null)

["Steve Loughran (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Work on HDFS-116 stopped by Steve Loughran.

> NPE if the system can't determine its own name and you go DNS.getDefaultHost(null)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-116
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-116
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Steve Loughran
>            Assignee: Steve Loughran
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In a test case that I am newly writing, on my infamous "home machine with broken DNS", I cant call getByName(null) without seeing a stack trace:
> Testcase: testNullInterface took 0.014 sec
> 	Caused an ERROR
> null
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at java.net.NetworkInterface.getByName(NetworkInterface.java:226)
> 	at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getIPs(DNS.java:94)
> 	at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getHosts(DNS.java:141)
> 	at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getDefaultHost(DNS.java:218)
> 	at org.apache.hadoop.net.DNS.getDefaultHost(DNS.java:235)
> 	at org.apache.hadoop.net.TestDNS.testNullInterface(TestDNS.java:62)

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