Re: Modular InetAddress

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Oct 26, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Guilhem Lavaux wrote:

> here is a quick patch to be able to have a modular getHostByName and a 
> getHostByAddr.
> To change implementation the user has just to provide a property 
> gnu.java.net.dns
> containing the full class name of an implementation.

Hi Guilhem,

I'm not convinced that we need this. I know it is a feature of kaffe, 
but who is using it? What sort of system has sockets but no native 
ability to look up a DNS address?

Regards

Bryce.