> > I think the DNS lookup is part of the JDBC failover connection patch
> > that I created. I initially used a InetSocketAddress.getHostString()
> > that does not do any DNS lookups, but since that method was added in
> > Java7 I had to revert to getHostName() method which does.
> >
>
> Is there any functionality that we need that is provided by using
> InetSocketAddress or is it just a convenient object to pass around host
> and port together? The simplest option to me seems to be reverting to
> passing simple strings/ints around (possibly in some kind of our own
> container).
It is just a convenient container. And it seems on older JVMs it cannot be used for such purposes.
I agree that we should just replace it with our own container that contains the host/port pair.
-Mikko