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