[dns-operations] Who Ignores TTLs ?

[Crist Clark]

>>> On 2/17/2011 at 11:25 AM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
>> Mark Andrews wrote:
>>> It's the apps not the caches that don't respect TTLs.
>> Well, they can't really.  Certainly not directly.  Getaddrinfo() (or 
> gethostbyname()) don't give TTL information to the application.  
> 
> Yes, the current APIs suck, but I don't think the application should try to 
> manage the TTL.  Applications already know too much about the network.

You may all now start the proselytizing about how IP NG
should have separated the endpoint identifier from the
endpoint locator and fixed most of this as a side effect.
Or how any such thing would have been evil. Or how trying
to wedge this onto IPv6 at this point is (the future|doomed
to fail).

*Runs. Hides.* (Been reading too much of the IPv6 griping
on NANOG.)
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Crist Clark
Network Security Specialist, Information Systems
Globalstar
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