[android-developers] Can't interrupt/abort InetAddress.getByName()

I have a thread that is doing Datagram(UDP) Socket communication.
But I want to be able to interrupt/abort this thread at any time from
my main UI. For blocking socket calls like read() and send() I can do
this very well by calling interrupt() on the thread object. After
those blocking calls my thread checks a flag to see if the main UI is
telling it to quit. If so, then it quits. But for
InetAddress.getByName() this doesn't seem to work. This call can
block for a long time (up to 20 seconds in one test I did) if the
Internet is not accessible for some reason. That is a long time to
wait to abort a thread. What is the right way to cause a thread to
abort a call to InetAddress.getByName() ?

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