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-rw-r--r--cpp/config/TestUtil.py11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/cpp/config/TestUtil.py b/cpp/config/TestUtil.py
index f6f2599b9e9..3b36cf6638f 100644
--- a/cpp/config/TestUtil.py
+++ b/cpp/config/TestUtil.py
@@ -25,14 +25,13 @@ protocol = "ssl"
compress = 1
#
-# Set the host to the host name the test servers are running on. If
-# not set, Ice will try to find out the IP address for the
-# hostname. If you DNS isn't set up propertly, you should therefore
-# use "localhost".
+# If you don't set "host" below, then the Ice library will try to find
+# out the IP address of this host. For the Ice test suite, it's best
+# to set the IP address explicitly to 127.0.0.1. This avoid problems
+# with incorrect DNS or hostname setups.
#
-#host = "someotherhost"
-host = "localhost"
+host = "127.0.0.1"
#
# Don't change anything below this line!