Non-blocking (async) DNS resolving in Java

Question

Is there a clean way to resolve a DNS query (get IP by hostname) in Java asynchronously, in non-blocking way (i.e. state machine, not 1 query = 1 thread - I\'d like to run tens

Answer 1

Linux has an asynchronous DNS lookup function: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2005/06/01/asynchronous-dns-lookups-with-glibc.html

If you are on Linux you just need to wrap that up in some JNI.