getKDCFromDNS called too often

[Michael Osipov]

On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:11, Michael Osipov <1983-01-06 at gmx.net> wrote:
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> > Am 2014-07-30 um 15:42 schrieb Wang Weijun:
> >> 
> >> On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:01, Michael Osipov <1983-01-06 at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Moreover, I have access to My Oracle Support if necessary.
> >> 
> >> I'll fix this bug in jdk9 first and backport it to jdk8u myself.
> >> However, jdk7u is owned by another engineering group. Since you
> >> already have My Oracle Support (honestly I don't know what that is),
> >> you can talk to your contact to push this to jdk7u.
> > 
> > OK, aren't you able to propose to a backport on the mailing list?
> 
> If I understand correctly, back porting to older releases (i.e. <= 7) needs a business justification. Since it's not myself working on it, it's always better to make it look important so that the sustaining manager can assign someone to do it. I can give my opinion too.

Maybe it won't be even necessary to stay put on Java 7 forever if this gets backported to Java 8. My company is discontinuing every Java release 6 month after Oracle has discontinued it.
 
> > 
> > I can raise an issue but as far as I know My Oracle Support (though my company is paying big money for that), this will be classified as a wish
> > and hell knows when this will be implemented.
> > 
> > Anyway, I won't be able to raise until that bug in fixed in JIRA and committed to master.
> 
> I am writing regression tests and will request for code review for jdk9 soon.

Thanks, I will have an eye on the mailing list for that.

Michael