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-rw-r--r--defaults/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/defaults/Defaults.java5
-rw-r--r--defaults/src/vespa/defaults.h5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/defaults/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/defaults/Defaults.java b/defaults/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/defaults/Defaults.java
index 441773a14c9..af92a183443 100644
--- a/defaults/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/defaults/Defaults.java
+++ b/defaults/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/defaults/Defaults.java
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ public class Defaults {
/**
- * Compute the host name that identifies myself
+ * Compute the host name that identifies myself.
+ * Detection of the hostname is now done before starting any Vespa
+ * programs and provided in the environment variable VESPA_HOSTNAME;
+ * if that variable isn't set a default of "localhost" is always returned.
* @return the vespa host name
**/
public String vespaHostname() { return vespaHost; }
diff --git a/defaults/src/vespa/defaults.h b/defaults/src/vespa/defaults.h
index d0b400ef563..c52a4511f4e 100644
--- a/defaults/src/vespa/defaults.h
+++ b/defaults/src/vespa/defaults.h
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ public:
static const char *vespaUser();
/**
- * Compute the host name that identifies myself
+ * Compute the host name that identifies myself.
+ * Detection of the hostname is now done before starting any Vespa
+ * programs and provided in the environment variable VESPA_HOSTNAME;
+ * if that variable isn't set a default of "localhost" is always returned.
* @return the vespa host name
**/
static const char *vespaHostname();