Querying the DNS service records to find the hostname and TCP/IP

Question

In a paper about the Life Science Identifiers (see LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services), Dr Roderic DM Page wrote :

Answer 1

I think you can't do it without using some external libraries. java.util.InetAddress has some methods to resolve names via DNS, but it's only usable for resolving names into IP addresses and not for generic DNS querying.

For that, you need some external library like DNSJava.