From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 02:16:29 EST
On Feb 8, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > What I'm talking about is having our own InetAddressImpl use a socket
>> > to contact a name server. We don't have to ask the security manager
>> > for permission in this case.
>> If we can create and use that socket in spite of a security manager,
>> that's fine.
> We're the VM, so who would keep us from doing it?
I understood you were suggesting that we could use a Java
implementation of a DNS client. This implementation would have to use
Java sockets, so it would be subject to SecurityManager checks. But
if you're talking about a native implementation, of course we can do
whatever we want.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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