>On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>> getaddrinfo() is not a DNS-only function; it can lookup hostname-to
>> address using /etc/hosts, NIS, LDAP, whatever you have. what value
>> would you put in to ai_ttl when the lookup is done by non-DNS method?
>
>-1, unless something else is provided?
then what do you expect application to do with the data? when does
it expire? any fabricated value (-1, 0, whatever) in ai_ttl is
problematical to TTL-aware application, IMHO. what i'm suggesting
is to use DNS-only API like getrrrsetbyname() if you want TTL.
itojun
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