Subject: Re: Adding TTL information to gethostbyname() and friends
To: NetBSD Networking Technical Discussion List <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/02/2003 19:35:47
> Thus the problem remains that any DNS caching in the application's
> own address space is useless for even any other instance of the same
> application, let alone any other application even if it runs on the
> same client host.

That's true.  Let's do away with unshared address spaces.

After all, what's the problem with running everything in the same
address space?  Nothing that a decently large address space and a
properly designed language can't collaborate to solve.

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