RFR (XS) 8237806: Convert TIMEOUT of sun.net.dns.ResolverConfigurationImpl into property

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/01/2020 09:22, Denghui Dong wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>   In our production environment, the content of /etc/resolv.conf may be modified because of some reason, and we found that JVM can't know it when it running.
>   There are some ways to fix this problem, one way is Adding -Dsun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.1=dns,sun 
> to enable sun.net.dns.ResolverConfigurationImpl, but
> the TIMEOUT value is too long for us, so we hope to use a system 
> property to control it.
>
If I read this correctly, you are running with 
-Dsun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.1=dns,sun so that InetAddress is 
using the DNS-only name service provider (based on JNDI-DNS), is that 
correct? Just checking because that mechanism was removed in JDK 9, 
maybe you are proposing this for jdk8u?

-Alan
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