private InetAddress getBindAddress() throws UnknownHostException {
    return bindAddress == null || bindAddress.isEmpty() ? LocalHostUtil.getLocalHost()
        : InetAddress.getByName(bindAddress);
  }
Starts an embedded GemFire caching node, and then listens for new memcached client connections.
geode-memcached/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/memcached/GemFireMemcachedServer.java