--On Monday, October 05, 2009 02:21:23 PM -0400 Jeffrey Altman
<[email protected]> wrote:
I do not think that documenting an implementation deficiency is
appropriate for a protocol standard.
I do. It's entirely reasonable for a protocol spec to document common
implementation pitfalls. While it happens that current OpenAFS gets this
right, it's actually very common for software depending on DNS data,
especially name->address mappings obtained via gethostbyname(),
getaddrinfo(), or similar interfaces, to fail to apply DNS-level TTL's to
how long results are used at the application level.
-- Jeff
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