Alan Bateman wrote:
Alan,
I don't think it's a significant change, since that's how getByName()
acts when the cache entries time out, so changing it would make it act
a lot more consistently.
Actually, I think it's worth debating whether or not InetAddress
should cache lookups at all, I thi
Alan Bateman wrote:
Alan,
The specification could be improved but changing InetAddress.getByName
to return a random address is a significant change that could break
existing applications. It might be better to define a new method,
perhaps "getAnyByName", that randomly chooses one of the cache
I've recently been introduced to the caching behaviour of InetAddress,
and I think it may be improved.
The javadoc reads:
The InetAddress class has a cache to store successful as well as
unsuccessful host name resolutions. The positive caching is there to
guard against DNS spoofing attacks; wh
