[JDK-8257080] Java does not try all DNS results when opening a socket

[Chris Hegarty]

Looping in a prior relevant issue in JIRA: 

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170568 - 
Improve address selection for network clients

-Chris.

> On 17 Dec 2020, at 13:45, Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fuchs at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Simone,
> 
> We are investigating introducing a Service Provider interface
> which would allow an application to replace the default
> built-in implementation that blocks inside the kernel.
> 
> There is no plan to introduce any public asynchronous API to perform
> address resolution at this point. With the advent of Loom and
> virtual threads I'm not sure there would be much motivation for
> that anyway.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> -- daniel
> 
> On 16/12/2020 19:59, Simone Bordet wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:55 PM Aleks Efimov <aleksej.efimov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Benjamin,
>>> 
>>> As Alan stated I'm working on adding an SPI [1] which will provide a
>>> possibility to alter how host names and IP addresses are resolved by JDK
>>> platform.
>>> I believe it would be possible to use this mechanism for addressing
>>> issue described in JDK-8257080.
>> Is it hopefully going to be non-blocking?
>