Fall back to picking another resolvable and reachable address if the system

hostname isn't.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/messagebus/src/main/java/com/yahoo/messagebus/network/Identity.java b/messagebus/src/main/java/com/yahoo/messagebus/network/Identity.java
index 45887b072ab..585fe680ba9 100644
--- a/messagebus/src/main/java/com/yahoo/messagebus/network/Identity.java
+++ b/messagebus/src/main/java/com/yahoo/messagebus/network/Identity.java
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2016 Yahoo Inc. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
 package com.yahoo.messagebus.network;
 
-import com.yahoo.log.LogLevel;
 import com.yahoo.net.HostName;
-import com.yahoo.net.LinuxInetAddress;
-
-import java.net.Inet6Address;
-import java.net.InetAddress;
 
 /**
  * This class encapsulates the identity of the application that uses this instance of message bus. This identity
@@ -28,11 +23,7 @@ public class Identity {
      * @param configId The config identifier for the application.
      */
     public Identity(String configId) {
-        InetAddress addr = LinuxInetAddress.getLocalHost(); // try hard to get a resolvable address
-        if (addr instanceof Inet6Address) // 
-            hostname = HostName.getLocalhost(); // ... but fallback to hostname if we get an IPv6 address
-        else
-            hostname = addr.getCanonicalHostName();
+        hostname = HostName.getLocalhost(); // ... but fallback to hostname if we get an IPv6 address
         servicePrefix = configId;
     }