java.net: Classpath vs. libgcj Comparison
Matt Welsh
mdw@cs.berkeley.edu
Sun Apr 16 22:13:00 GMT 2000
Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:
> I disagree with this. Caching inside InetAddress is a misfeature. The underly
> ing OS already caches DNS entries.
Really? Do *all* underlying O/S's cache Internet address lookups?
My guess was that this was added to java.net.InetAddress to mask any
incompatibilities between operating systems in this regard.
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