Re: hostname vs. IP

[Donald Woods <dr...@yahoo.com>]

Using getHostName was removed back in the 1.1 release, as it only 
returned the short hostname, which causes problems when using the 
deployer to machines using DHCP or not in the same sub-domain.....

-Donald


Bruce Snyder wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Hernan Cunico <hc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> is there a way to force Geronimo to display the hostname when 
>> deploying apps?
>> it seems to randomly change from one interface to another (I have 2 
>> IPs diff network on my machine) and from IP to server name. I can't 
>> figure out why Geronimo is picking one over the other, it seems to be 
>> random.
>>
>>   Web Applications:
>>     http://192.168.1.10:8080/
>>     http://192.168.1.10:8080/console
>>     http://192.168.1.10:8080/console-standard
>>     http://192.168.1.10:8080/dojo
>>     http://192.168.1.10:8080/hello
>>     http://192.168.1.10:8080/remote-deploy
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> This is probably because only the method InetAddress.getHost() is
> being used instead of InetAddress.getHostName(). But using
> getHostName() and having it work correctly requires a reverse lookup
> to be performed. But I'm sure it can be changed.
> 
> Bruce