diff --git a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetClientAttributesGetter.java b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetClientAttributesGetter.java
index 7975aa8630fb..019df5343b14 100644
--- a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetClientAttributesGetter.java
+++ b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetClientAttributesGetter.java
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ public final String peerName(REQUEST request, @Nullable RESPONSE response) {
     if (address == null) {
       return null;
     }
-    if (address.getAddress() != null) {
-      return address.getAddress().getHostName();
-    }
     return address.getHostString();
   }
 
diff --git a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetServerAttributesGetter.java b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetServerAttributesGetter.java
index 92a286f37b5c..269286a9ee6d 100644
--- a/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetServerAttributesGetter.java
+++ b/instrumentation-api/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/api/instrumenter/net/InetSocketAddressNetServerAttributesGetter.java
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ public final String peerName(REQUEST request) {
     if (address == null) {
       return null;
     }
-    if (address.getAddress() != null) {
-      return address.getAddress().getHostName();
-    }
     return address.getHostString();
   }
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-6.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest.groovy b/instrumentation/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-6.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest.groovy
index 3fc76707ef40..26b182e3b3b1 100644
--- a/instrumentation/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-6.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest.groovy
+++ b/instrumentation/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-6.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest.groovy
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ class Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest extends AbstractElasticsearchTransportCl
           kind CLIENT
           childOf(span(0))
           attributes {
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" tcpPublishAddress.address
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" tcpPublishAddress.port
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "elasticsearch"
@@ -224,7 +223,6 @@ class Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest extends AbstractElasticsearchTransportCl
           name "CreateIndexAction"
           kind CLIENT
           attributes {
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" tcpPublishAddress.address
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" tcpPublishAddress.port
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "elasticsearch"
@@ -240,7 +238,6 @@ class Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest extends AbstractElasticsearchTransportCl
           name "GetAction"
           kind CLIENT
           attributes {
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" tcpPublishAddress.address
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" tcpPublishAddress.port
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "elasticsearch"
@@ -271,7 +268,6 @@ class Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest extends AbstractElasticsearchTransportCl
           name "IndexAction"
           kind CLIENT
           attributes {
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" tcpPublishAddress.address
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" tcpPublishAddress.port
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "elasticsearch"
@@ -293,7 +289,6 @@ class Elasticsearch6TransportClientTest extends AbstractElasticsearchTransportCl
           name "GetAction"
           kind CLIENT
           attributes {
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" tcpPublishAddress.address
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" tcpPublishAddress.port
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "elasticsearch"
diff --git a/instrumentation/jedis/jedis-4.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Jedis40ClientTest.groovy b/instrumentation/jedis/jedis-4.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Jedis40ClientTest.groovy
index bbcdce5b9f61..585f548b7d71 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jedis/jedis-4.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Jedis40ClientTest.groovy
+++ b/instrumentation/jedis/jedis-4.0/javaagent/src/test/groovy/Jedis40ClientTest.groovy
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Jedis40ClientTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
   def setupSpec() {
     redisServer.start()
     port = redisServer.getMappedPort(6379)
-    jedis = new Jedis("localhost", port)
+    jedis = new Jedis("127.0.0.1", port)
   }
 
   def cleanupSpec() {
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ class Jedis40ClientTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "redis"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_STATEMENT" "SET foo ?"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_OPERATION" "SET"
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" port
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" "127.0.0.1"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_TRANSPORT" SemanticAttributes.NetTransportValues.IP_TCP
@@ -78,7 +77,6 @@ class Jedis40ClientTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "redis"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_STATEMENT" "SET foo ?"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_OPERATION" "SET"
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" port
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" "127.0.0.1"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_TRANSPORT" SemanticAttributes.NetTransportValues.IP_TCP
@@ -93,7 +91,6 @@ class Jedis40ClientTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "redis"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_STATEMENT" "GET foo"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_OPERATION" "GET"
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" port
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" "127.0.0.1"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_TRANSPORT" SemanticAttributes.NetTransportValues.IP_TCP
@@ -120,7 +117,6 @@ class Jedis40ClientTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "redis"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_STATEMENT" "SET foo ?"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_OPERATION" "SET"
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" port
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" "127.0.0.1"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_TRANSPORT" SemanticAttributes.NetTransportValues.IP_TCP
@@ -135,7 +131,6 @@ class Jedis40ClientTest extends AgentInstrumentationSpecification {
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_SYSTEM" "redis"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_STATEMENT" "RANDOMKEY"
             "$SemanticAttributes.DB_OPERATION" "RANDOMKEY"
-            "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME" "localhost"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT" port
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_PEER_IP" "127.0.0.1"
             "$SemanticAttributes.NET_TRANSPORT" SemanticAttributes.NetTransportValues.IP_TCP