Re: [cp-patches] Patch: RFC: remove InetAddress caching

[Archie Cobbs]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> I'm not checking this in yet -- I would like comments first.
>
> I happened to run across the caching code in java.net.InetAddress
> today.  We had a couple discussions about this already in the past,
> e.g. one is here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2000-04/msg00106.html
>
> I still think this code is incorrect, as it doesn't respect TTL
> properly.  I would like to remove it, which is what this patch does.

Sounds good to me. Let the upstream DNS server do the caching, that's
what it's there for.

Or, at least, this reverts to doing the correct and conservative thing
while the correct and optimized thing is being worked on. What we have
now is incorrect and optimized :-)

-Archie

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