addr is of illegal length
<p>I am checking whether the ipAddress is in Private Category or not. So I wrote this method below. And I am getting this as an exception-</p>

<pre><code>java.net.UnknownHostException: addr is of illegal length
    at java.net.InetAddress.getByAddress(InetAddress.java:948)
    at java.net.InetAddress.getByAddress(InetAddress.java:1324)
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<p>ipAddress (172.18.36.81) is String</p>

<pre><code>if(isPrivateIPAddress(ipAddress)) {

            return null;
        }


private static boolean isPrivateIPAddress(String ipAddress) {

    byte[] byteArray = null;
    InetAddress ia = null;
    try {
        byteArray = ipAddress.getBytes("UTF-16LE");
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }


    try {
        ia = InetAddress.getByAddress(byteArray);
    } catch (UnknownHostException e) {

        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return ia.isSiteLocalAddress();
}
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