StringUtil.appendHex(buf, lowTime);
        StringUtil.appendHex(buf, RANDOM.nextInt());
        return buf.toString();
    }

    private static byte[] getAddress() {
        try {
            return InetAddress.getLocalHost().getAddress();
        } catch (final UnknownHostException ignore) {
            return DEFAULT_ADDRESS;
        }
    }

 * literals -- there is no blocking DNS penalty for a malformed string.
 *
 * <p>When dealing with {@link Inet4Address} and {@link Inet6Address} objects as byte arrays (vis.
 * {@code InetAddress.getAddress()}) they are 4 and 16 bytes in length, respectively, and represent
 * the address in network byte order.
 *
 * <p>Examples of IP addresses and their byte representations:
 *
 * <dl>

	return ep.GetHealthStatus()
}

func retrieveEndpointPort(ep *endpoint.LbEndpoint) uint32 {
	return ep.GetEndpoint().GetAddress().GetSocketAddress().GetPortValue()
}

func retrieveEndpointAddress(ep *endpoint.LbEndpoint) string {
	addr := ep.GetEndpoint().GetAddress()
	if addr := addr.GetSocketAddress(); addr != nil {
		return addr.Address + ":" + strconv.Itoa(int(addr.GetPortValue()))
	}