[HADOOP-7806] Support binding to sub-interfaces

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0, 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: util
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Harsh J
• Reporter: Harsh J
• Created: 08/Nov/11 09:30
• Updated: 23/May/12 20:15
• Resolved: 23/Mar/12 03:24

Description

Right now, with the DNS class, we can look up IPs of provided interface names (eth0, vm1, etc.). However, it would be useful if the I/F -> IP lookup also took a look at subinterfaces (eth0:1, etc.) and allowed binding to only a specified subinterface / virtual interface.

This should be fairly easy to add, by matching against all available interfaces' subinterfaces via Java.