[jcifs] multiple DC via DNS

[Frode E. Moe]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 08:50:48 +0200, Dirk Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i tried to get a list of DC's via DNS rather than using WINS. I have a DNS entry like this:
> 
> dcs.example.com.   10008   IN      A       10.11.11.41
> dcs.example.com.   10008   IN      A       10.11.0.44
> 
> I set the jcifs loglevel to 10. Only the first DC (that is returned by InetAddress.getByName()) was used, so my question is:
> Is fetching a DC-list that way supported? 

Sun's Java in general has a pretty aggressive DNS cache built-in, which
keeps resolved hosts around forever. You can try to disable the cache,
see for example: 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html#nct
and the "InetAddress Caching" paragraph here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/InetAddress.html