trivial InetAddress.getByName() in Java

example-gist.java

try {
	if (getLog().isTraceEnabled())
		getLog().trace("lookup : " + hostname);

	// oh, lookup!
	InetAddress ipAddress = InetAddress.getByName(hostname);

	// NOTE: this is where it went bad on the AWS image
	//   *sigh*

    return ipAddress.getHostAddress();
}
catch (UnknownHostException e) { }
catch (Exception e) {
	getLog().warn("failed to lookup " + hostname, e);
}