gcc/libjava/java/net/VMInetAddress.java

/* VMInetAddress.java -- Class to model an Internet address
   Copyright (C) 2005  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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package java.net;

import gnu.classpath.Configuration;

import java.io.Serializable;

class VMInetAddress implements Serializable
{
  static
  {
    if (Configuration.INIT_LOAD_LIBRARY)
      System.loadLibrary("javanet");
  }

  /**
   * This method looks up the hostname of the local machine
   * we are on.  If the actual hostname cannot be determined, then the
   * value "localhost" will be used.  This native method wrappers the
   * "gethostname" function.
   *
   * @return The local hostname.
   */
  public static native String getLocalHostname();

  /**
   * Returns the value of the special address INADDR_ANY
   */
  public static native byte[] lookupInaddrAny() throws UnknownHostException;

  /**
   * This method returns the hostname for a given IP address.  It will
   * throw an UnknownHostException if the hostname cannot be determined.
   *
   * @param ip The IP address as a byte array
   *
   * @return The hostname
   *
   * @exception UnknownHostException If the reverse lookup fails
   */
  public static native String getHostByAddr(byte[] ip)
    throws UnknownHostException;

  /**
   * Returns a list of all IP addresses for a given hostname.  Will throw
   * an UnknownHostException if the hostname cannot be resolved.
   */
  public static native byte[][] getHostByName(String hostname)
    throws UnknownHostException;

  /**
   * Return the IP address represented by a literal address.
   * Will return null if the literal address is not valid.
   *
   * @param address the name of the host
   *
   * @return The IP address as a byte array
   */
  public static native byte[] aton(String address);
}