* The wildcard expression may consist of two special meta
     * characters in addition to the normal filename characters. The '*'
     * character matches any number of characters in part of a name. If
     * the expression begins with one or more '?'s then exactly that
     * many characters will be matched whereas if it ends with '?'s
     * it will match that many characters <i>or less</i>.
     * <p>

        if ( host == null || host.length() == 0 ) {
            return getLocalHost();
        }

        Name name = new Name(this.transportContext.getConfig(), host, type, scope);
        if ( !Character.isDigit(host.charAt(0)) ) {
            return doNameQuery(name, svr);
        }

        int IP = 0x00;
        int hitDots = 0;
        char[] data = host.toCharArray();

 * <p>
 * The wildcard expression may consist of two special meta
 * characters in addition to the normal filename characters. The '*'
 * character matches any number of characters in part of a name. If
 * the expression begins with one or more '?'s then exactly that
 * many characters will be matched whereas if it ends with '?'s
 * it will match that many characters <i>or less</i>.
 * <p>