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  2. JDK-4975882

Reverse DNS calls in SocketPermission undesirable

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    • generic, linux

      a customer has ask this question, he has a network setup in which
      DNS name to address translation is ok but address to name translation
      is not allowed.
      in this setup he has used an applet to connect to a server and run into
      a huge delay because of this code in SocketPermission.java, method
      impliesIgnoreMask:

                // XXX: if all else fails, compare hostnames?
                // Do we really want this?
                if (this.cname == null) {
                    this.getCanonName();
                }

                if (that.cname == null) {
      -> that.getCanonName();
                }

                return (this.cname.equalsIgnoreCase(that.cname));

      this line doing reverse DNS hangs for long time. since the comment says
      "do we really want this", it makes me think can this be considered to
      removed? we have already compared IP address above this.

            chegar Chris Hegarty
            ywangsunw Yingxian Wang (Inactive)
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