[HADOOP-7668] Add a NetUtils method that can tell if an InetAddress belongs to local host

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0, 0.24.0
• Component/s: util
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: closing again
• Assignee: Steve Loughran
• Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
• Created: 21/Sep/11 21:06
• Updated: 15/Nov/11 00:50
• Resolved: 28/Sep/11 20:18

Description

This utility will be useful for mechanism proposed in HDFS-2231 where based on matching configured address with local address, a node determines the related configuration parameters.