dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Tue Feb 28 09:32:17 UTC 2012
On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> getaddrinfo was designed to be extensible as was struct
> addrinfo. Part of the problem with TTL is not data sources
> used by getaddrinfo have TTL information. Additionally for
> many uses you want to reconnect to the same server rather
> than the same name. Note there is nothing to prevent a
> getaddrinfo implementation maintaining its own cache though
> if I was implementing such a cache I would have a flag to
> to force a refresh.
>
Sorry if I wasn't clear... My point to Bill was that we should be using calls that don't have TTL information
(GAI/GNI in their default forms). That we don't need to abuse connect() to achieve that. That if people use GAI/GNI(), then, any brokenness is system-wide brokenness in the system's resolver library and should be addressed there.
Owen
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