Re: getRecords doesn't return

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

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Rodolphe Ode wrote:

> Hi!
> It seems like I discovered a bug that is not easy to 
> reproduce. I have a java program that consists of a 
> pool of threads (500 in my example). Each thread uses 
> dnsjava to mx lookup domain names.
> 
> So I use dnsjava like this :
> 
> Record[] mxRecords = dns.getRecords(domainName, 
> Type.MX);
> 
> It works perfectly but about one time out of 10000,
> getRecords doesn't go back, there is nothing returned 
> and the thread seems to be bloqued with this 
> instruction. getRecords seems not to go back.
> Is there anyone who also had this bug ?
> 
> I catch every exception and none is fired. 

Without more information, there's no way to fix this.  If it only occurs
one of of 10000 or so times, and only with a large pool of threads (which
works really badly on linux), then there isn't much I can do.

If you want to try debugging it and determine where it's blocking, that
would help.

Brian