> On 30. Mar 2017, at 16:58, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 30/03/2017 15:36, Norman Maurer wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I am not sure if this is the correct list for the question but as relate to >> network I will just try. If its the wrong list please tell me which one >> would be better fitted. >> >> Is there reason why not expose the DNS Servers configured on a system. These >> are exposed in sun.net.dns.ResolverConfiguration but not exposed in any >> public way. Be able to access these would help people that want to do a >> custom dns lookup (for example non-blocking) like what we do in netty. >> If this is something that would be considered I can come up with a patch for >> it. >> > One could imagine introducing an API in java.net that exposes more of the > networking configuration but I think would require debate as to whether it's > the right thing to do or not (esp. as the existing networking APIs are > abstracted from whether resolution is done via DNS, host files, ..). > > An alternative might to see if it is exposed by the JNDI-DNS provider (the > primary user of ResolverConfiguration and the reason it was created). It > might already be exposed in the environment. > > -Alan
Thats why I tried to kick-off the topic :) Thanks for the quick reply btw…. So is this list the right place for this discussion ?
