Subject: Re: Adding TTL information to gethostbyname() and friends
To: NetBSD Networking Technical Discussion List <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/03/2003 01:07:34
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"Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> writes:

> It is never "right" for an application to cache DNS information and thus
> it is never "right" for an application to need the DNS TTL values.

When the application is something that implements a filesystem, I would say
its never "right" to query the DNS server for ever request to the
fileserver. Thus, you want to cache in the application.

Love

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