Name: nt126004 Date: 12/04/2001


java version "1.4.0-beta3"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta3-b84)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta3-b84, mixed mode

While JNDI-DNS handles most of our DNS concerns, it does not include the ability
to get the DNS servers from the current OS. It is extremely unreliable for the
API to rely on developers to find out the DNS servers by themselves. The
following concerns must be addressed:

- There needs to be an OS-independant way of detecting DNS servers for a given
network interface. Those OSs which do not support DNS servers should simply
return null (indicating there are none).

- There needs to be a mechanism to inform us when nameserver changes occur (very
likely during the lifetime of deamon applications)
(Review ID: 136222)
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