Thanks, Konstantin, for the thorough response!
I was failing to grasp that the forward lookup portion of the method was
failing because there was no forward dns mapping. I thought it was failing
locally inside the java code, not in the dns system.
To confirm the lack of a dns mapping, I used
2009/1/28 otismo :
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> I'm struggling to get enableLookups to work on a new Ubuntu 8.10 tomcat
> 6.0.18 install. Calls to httpServletRequest.getHostName() always return the
> IP, instead of the host name. I set the access log to resolve hosts and it
> also shows the ip.
>
> Tomcat 6.0.18 and the
