Cnanging the DNS server

[anuta]

Hi

How can I change (from java code) the DNS server used by InetAddress for hosts resolution?

Thanks in advance

[danielstoner]

What do you want to achieve? The DNS server comes from machine configuration.

[anuta]

In Machine configuration can be defined a list of active DNS servers. Those servers can recognize a different set of domains.
There could be an IP adress that only known by the secondary DNS server and not known by the primary one.

When I am trying to resolve a host
InetAddress.getByName()
it is connected to the first active DNS server on the my machine configuration, and if the host is not recognized not trying to connect to next DNS server on the list.

So that is what I am trying to do, to specify the DNS server for the host resolution.

[anuta]

static public String resolveHostWithAllDnsServers(String ip)
{
List nameservers = sun.net.dns.ResolverConfiguration.open ().nameservers();
for( int i =1; i< nameservers.size() ; i++ )
{
String dnsServer =nameservers.get(i).toString();
try
{
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "dns://"+dnsServer+"/.");
DirContext ictx = new InitialDirContext(env);
String reversedIp=getReversedIP(ip) ;
Attributes attr = ictx.getAttributes(reversedIp+".in-addr.arpa",new String[]{"PTR"});
Attribute attrib = attr.get("PTR") ;
String host=(String)attrib.get(0);
return host;
}
catch (NamingException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return ip;
}

public static String getReversedIP(String ip)
{
StringTokenizer st = new java.util.StringTokenizer(ip, ".");
String reversedIp=st.nextToken();
while ( st.hasMoreTokens())
{
reversedIp = st.nextToken()+"."+reversedIp;
}
return reversedIp;
}

[danielstoner]

Nicely done . Thanks for posting for others too.