<code java>
package nslookup;

import java.io.Serializable;

/** this is the class used to model requests to the name server 
 * 
 * @author marcod
 *
 */
public class NameQuery implements Serializable {
        
        /** will host the name of the queryed host */
        String hostName = null; 
        /** true if we accept an answer from cache */
        boolean cached = false; 
        
        public NameQuery(String h, boolean b) {
                hostName = h; 
                cached = b;
        }
        
        public String toString() { return hostName; }
        public String getHostname() { return hostName; }
        public boolean getCached() { return cached; }

}

</code>