I had to deal with this last week. Here's the important bit of documentation:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/net/InetAddress.html Jeff Schnitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sims Online > -----Original Message----- > From: Aditya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 6:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: JVM or tomcat aggressive caching DNS lookups? > > This seems to be a problem with the JVM, but since I only run into it in > long > running programs like Tomcat, I'm asking here -- it seems that in an JSP, > if > I'm using URLConnection to retrieve a remote webpage, the IP address that > is > obtained when doing the lookup in URLConnection persists for the life of > Tomcat/JVM even past the ttl for that record. For example: > > - www.foo.com resolves to 1.2.3.4 with a ttl of 15 minutes > > - 30 minutes later, if I look up www.foo.com, it's still 1.2.3.4 though in > the > meantime I've updated it to 4.5.6.7 > > Is there a way to force the JVM internal DNS cache to be flushed? > > Thanks, > Adi > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
