Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

Signals that the name of a specified host could not be resolved.

public class UnknownHostException extends java.io.IOException { // Public Constructors public UnknownHostException ( ); public UnknownHostException (String host ); }

Thrown By

Inet6Address.getByAddress( ) , InetAddress.{getAllByName( ) , getByAddress( ) , getByName( ) , getLocalHost( )} , Socket.Socket( ) , javax.net.SocketFactory.createSocket( ) , javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket.SSLSocket( )