RFC compliant address selection vs. home made getaddrinfo

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/06/2013 23:01, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:05:00PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>> If you think it is not a good idea to fix this, I would vote for an
>> alternate name service provider which can be selected if rfc
>> compliant behavior is needed.
> I agree with the other points.
>
> There is a pre-existing alternative provider, dnsjava:
>
You might know this already but the JDK also ships with a pure DNS provider.

There are details on how to configure it at the end of this page:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/ipv6_guide/index.html

-Alan.