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Asked: 2026-06-11T13:22:57+00:00

Given a domain and a nameserver ip I’d like to know where is that

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Given a domain and a nameserver ip I’d like to know where is that nameserver resolving the IP in java, how can I achieve it? Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have at least two options:

    If your code has to run on any VM, you must use one of the many available Java DNS libraries. Googling for “java dns library” will give you many options.

    If your code is only going to run on a Sun/Oracle VM, you can use the proprietary JNDI DNS provider like this:

    Hashtable<String, Object> env = new Hashtable<String, Object>();
env.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContextFactory");
env.put("java.naming.provider.url",    "dns://<your DNS server>");

DirContext ictx = new InitialDirContext(env);
Attributes attrs = ictx.getAttributes("www.heise.de", new String[] {"A", "AAAA"});

NamingEnumeration<? extends Attribute> e = attrs.getAll();
while(e.hasMoreElements()) {
    Attribute a = e.next();
    System.out.println(a.getID() + " = " + a.get());
}

    This example will query the specified DNS server for all A and AAAA records for the host http://www.heise.de:

    A = 193.99.144.85

    AAAA = 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7

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