Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 06:48:23 -0500
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:43:05 GMT
From: Sergej Melnik <k961909@dcs.kingston.ac.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960314180631.29381C-100000@frappe.ugcs.caltech.edu> (message from Wesley Tanaka on Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:12:14 -0800 (PST))
Subject: Re: Bug in awt.net.InetAddress
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> So I have the following piece of code:
>         static String lookup (String in)
>         {
>                 InetAddress addr;
>                 String ret;
>                 try
>                 {
>                         addr = InetAddress.getByName (in);
>                         ret = addr.toString();
>                 }
>                 catch (UnknownHostException e)
>                 {
>                         ret = "Unknown Host: " + e.getMessage();
>                 }
>                 return ret;
>         }
> 
> which gives me the following error on my Linux machine:
> ...

The code given by you seems to run correctly on my Linux ("try4" JDK).

Have you got the last JDK?

Sergej