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  1. JGroups
  2. JGRP-2527

NPE if binding JGroups to an IP without interface

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Minor
    • 4.2.12, 5.1.5
    • 4.2.9
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    Description

      If you bind JGroups to 127.0.2.1 (or any IP without an interface, like 127.0.0.0/8 - loopback IP addresses (refers to self) RFC 5735), JGroups fails with an NPE:

      Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
      	at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.dumpSocketInfo(UDP.java:558)
      	at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.createSockets(UDP.java:422)
      	at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.start(UDP.java:292)
      	at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.startStack(ProtocolStack.java:868)
      	at org.jgroups.JChannel.startStack(JChannel.java:980)
      	at org.jgroups.JChannel._preConnect(JChannel.java:844)
      	at org.jgroups.JChannel.connect(JChannel.java:349)
      	at org.jgroups.JChannel.connect(JChannel.java:343)
      

      The exception comes from this line: https://github.com/belaban/JGroups/blob/4.x/src/org/jgroups/protocols/UDP.java#L558

      NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(bind_addr) returns null since the IP does not have an interface. It would be nice to have a null check here to prevent the NPE.

      This is useful for local testing when `port_range=0`. It allows having a dedicated IP for each JGroups instance.

      Workaround:
      The workaround requires you to create a virtual interface

      sudo ifconfig lo:0 127.0.2.1 up
      

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            rhn-engineering-bban Bela Ban
            pruivo@redhat.com Pedro Ruivo
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