Stefano Bagnara (JIRA) schrieb:
> Make sure our container use an expiration for cached dns data
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                  Key: JAMES-679
>                  URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-679
>              Project: James
>           Issue Type: Improvement
>     Affects Versions: 2.3.0
>             Reporter: Stefano Bagnara
>          Assigned To: Stefano Bagnara
>              Fix For: 2.3.1-dev, Next Minor, Next Major, Trunk
>
>
> Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>   
>> Stefano Bagnara wrote:
>>     
>>> but it could happen (or maybe it already happen) that some third party
>>> library we use still make use of InetAddress "flawed" methods, and the
>>> above property would save us from the possible OutOfMemory because of
>>> the unbounded cache.
>>>       
>> Perhaps, but I would rather vet the code, and be more careful about what we 
>> use.  Now that we know one of the things to look for carefully, we can avoid 
>> it.  The better solution is to avoid the problem, not mask it.
>>
>>      --- Noel
>>     
>
> I agree: we avoid it in trunk because of this.
>
> About the "not masking" I think that even if we solved it we should better 
> add the property because our users could easily make our mistakes and use 
> InetAddress in their mailets. The fact that DNSServer is not part of the 
> mailet apis incentivate them to use InetAdress and not the James Server 
> specific service.
>
> So I think we should really add the ttl property.
>
> Either "-Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=10" in the command line or 
> java.security.Security.setProperty("networkaddress.cache.ttl" , "10"); 
> Should work
+1

bye
Norman


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