It works okay for me but on OSX Mavericks for a particular customer InetAddress.getLocalHost() is failing with Java 7 although it works okay with Java 6 with the following exception
java.net.UnknownHostException: rupert: rupert: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1466)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: rupert: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:894)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1286)
at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1462)
Is this by design ?
Update
Looks to be a known bug fixed in Java 8