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Re: java.net: Classpath vs. libgcj Comparison
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Subject: Re: java.net: Classpath vs. libgcj Comparison
- From: Matt Welsh <mdw at cs dot berkeley dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 22:13:22 -0700
- cc: "Aaron M. Renn" <arenn at urbanophile dot com>, classpath at gnu dot org, gs at sevenmountains dot no, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: Matt Welsh <mdw at cs dot berkeley dot edu>
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.