[CASSANDRA-3211] Enhanced IP resolution for machines with multiple network interfaces

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.7

Environment

Mac OS X and Linux with machines that have multiple network interfaces whereby the IP associated with the split is not on the network interface associated with localhost.

• Assignee: Brian ONeill Assign to me
• Reporter: Brian ONeill

Authors

Brian ONeill

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 15/Sep/11 03:11
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 03/Oct/11 20:14

Description

On unix machines that have multiple network interfaces whereby the IP associated with the split is not on the network interface associated with localhost, the getLocation method cannot find the proper IP and throws an exception "no connection available".

I changed the implementation to use NetworkInterface instead of InetAddress using getLocalHost().

This is more reliable. See the following references:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5813194/inetaddress-getlocalhost-does-not-return-expected-ip-address-from-c-windows-sy
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4871451/inetaddress-getlocalhost-returns-wrong-result-when-hostname-is-64-chars
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=790132