Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) writes: >> I'm sure what the right heuristics are. Maybe something >> like once-a-month and if DNS fails, keep using the old address >> as long as it works. > > It has always bothered me that the TTL in the DNS record is stripped > off by the resolver code. There is already an indication in the DNS > record how long the issuer of the record wants it to be used. Careful > DNS admins will even go so far as creeping the TTL down as a cut-over > to a new IP address happens. It would be ideal for a long-running > program to just time out the IP address using this TTL and request a > new one whenever the old one expires. >
The data structure addrinfo used for getaddrinfo() would need to be modified to do this in a useful way. But you should look at subsequent addresses and not just the first one as well. > Seeing how ntpd is now hosted at ISC, anyone here have the ear of the > bind developers? > I was one of them. But please remember that while NTP Public Service Project is *hosted* at ISC does not mean that it is part of ISC. It isn't. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
