synchronized ( this.LOCK ) {
                        request.nameTrnId = getNextNameTrnId();
                        nid = new Integer(request.nameTrnId);

                        this.out.setAddress(request.addr);
                        this.out.setLength(request.writeWireFormat(this.snd_buf, 0));
                        response.received = false;

                        this.responseTable.put(nid, response);

 * literals -- there is no blocking DNS penalty for a malformed string.
 *
 * <p>When dealing with {@link Inet4Address} and {@link Inet6Address} objects as byte arrays (vis.
 * {@code InetAddress.getAddress()}) they are 4 and 16 bytes in length, respectively, and represent
 * the address in network byte order.
 *
 * <p>Examples of IP addresses and their byte representations:
 *
 * <dl>