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InetAddress and dnsjava

[Anders K. <an...@ci...>]

All,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how InetAddress.getByName is 
implemented in the JDK. I imagine it uses the platform's resolver 
library but maybe it uses the JNDI DNS resolver?

Is the InetAddress resolver pluggable in any way? Would it be possible 
to have it map on to dnsjava, say?

Thanks,
Anders

Re: InetAddress and dnsjava

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Anders Kristensen wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone could tell me how InetAddress.getByName is 
> implemented in the JDK. I imagine it uses the platform's resolver library but 
> maybe it uses the JNDI DNS resolver?

I believe it uses the JNDI resolver, which uses the platform's resolver
library.

> Is the InetAddress resolver pluggable in any way? Would it be possible to 
> have it map on to dnsjava, say?

Yes.  See the "Replacing the standard Java DNS functionality" section of 
the dnsjava README file.

Brian