JDK-8016345 (DNSName does not accept names with leading numbers) will-not-fix? Why?

[Sean Mullan]

On 3/27/17 11:41 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>
> thanks for the info. So, basically, there is no particular reason I'm
> too blind to see not to fix the parser to accept hostnames with leading
> numbers, e.g., just lack of time/resources? I am asking because then we
> could fix it in our product downstream and maybe contribute the fix to
> upstream.

There is no particular reason that I am aware of. Please feel free to 
fix it on your side and contribute a patch. In case you are not familiar 
with contributing to OpenJDK, the process is described in more detail 
here: http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/

--Sean