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Quick Lists
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Bug ID:
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4239141
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Votes
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0
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Synopsis
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A warning should be added to the use of toString in INetAddress
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Category
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guides:none
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Reported Against
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1.3
, 1.2.1
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Release Fixed
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1.4(merlin-beta)
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State
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10-Fix Delivered,
bug
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Priority:
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4-Low
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Related Bugs
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4379243
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Submit Date
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18-MAY-1999
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Description
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The engineer responsible for this class has fixed the bug mentioned in this bug report.
xxxxx@xxxxx 2000-08-24
When you create an INetAddress via getByName(), and then subsequently make a call to toString() there is normally no problems. But if the network is down then that call to toString() will result in a major delay to the application (due to the hostName being null in that INetAddress instance).
We have spent an awful long time tracking this down and did not expect to find that the cause of our problem was the normally innocuous toString method.
(Review ID: 83189)
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Work Around
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What we have done is place the code doing the toString always in another thread, regardless of network presence. It just means a short delay in getting the info we like.
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Evaluation
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We decided that it's inappropriate for toString to do a DNS lookup when hostName is null. If hostName is null, we will print an empty string for the hostname part. This is the behaviour in jdk1.0.
xxxxx@xxxxx 2000-08-23
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Comments
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PLEASE NOTE: JDK6 is formerly known as Project Mustang
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