On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:13:09PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Dalibor Topic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > InetAddress caching shouldn't be that hard to add, > > though, if you'd like to submit a patch. > > Hehe... no, Matthew left out the context for his question. He's > maintaining Freenet (freenetproject.org), and the caching of old > DNS lookup data by the Sun JVM is causing some problems for users > with dynamic DNS hostnames. He wants to turn caching *off*! :)
Well actually it's causing problems for all nodes, because they have to talk to nodes with dynamic DNS hostnames. It's really quite beautiful, in a way, that all sun JVMs prior to 1.4, BY DESIGN, cache all successful DNS lookups forever... and even 1.4.1 seems to have a bug that causes the exact same behaviour even when we follow the docs and turn it off. We could of course recommend that all users use Kaffe, but the self-appointed project manglement have decreed that we will not use project funds to work on Kaffe, and there are major bugs in kaffe causing my node to abort with assertions, segfaults etc in a matter of minutes if I try to run it under Kaffe. > > -- > Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers > http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-23.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/SPmjEh6sH3Y/ ICTHUS.
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