diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Addressing.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Addressing.java
index 46042c2500b..891ad355a35 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Addressing.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Addressing.java
@@ -152,6 +152,21 @@ public class Addressing {
     return local;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Given an InetSocketAddress object returns a String represent of it.
+   * This is a util method for Java 17. The toString() function of InetSocketAddress
+   * will flag the unresolved address with a substring in the string, which will result
+   * in unexpected problem. We should use this util function to get the string when we
+   * not sure whether the input address is resolved or not.
+   * @param address address to convert to a "host:port" String.
+   * @return the String represent of the given address, like "foo:1234".
+   */
+  public static String inetSocketAddress2String(InetSocketAddress address) {
+    return address.isUnresolved() ?
+      address.toString().replace("/<unresolved>", "") :
+      address.toString();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Interface for AddressSelectionCondition to check if address is acceptable
    */
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/CanaryTool.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/CanaryTool.java
index df48083cf01..4f6638e9c43 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/CanaryTool.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/CanaryTool.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.tool;
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants.DEFAULT_ZOOKEEPER_ZNODE_PARENT;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants.ZOOKEEPER_ZNODE_PARENT;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Addressing.inetSocketAddress2String;
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.BindException;
@@ -1707,7 +1708,7 @@ public class CanaryTool implements Tool, Canary {
           new ConnectStringParser(ZKConfig.getZKQuorumServersString(configuration));
       hosts = Lists.newArrayList();
       for (InetSocketAddress server : parser.getServerAddresses()) {
-        hosts.add(server.toString());
+        hosts.add(inetSocketAddress2String(server));
       }
       if (allowedFailures > (hosts.size() - 1) / 2) {
         LOG.warn(