[150729] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 1 20:17:08 2012
In-Reply-To: <5E50043A-BDB2-4AAB-A7B8-BE71854D7413@delong.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:15:49 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> There's no need to
> break the current functionality of the underlying system calls and
> libc functions which would be needed by any such library anyway.
Owen,
Point to one sentence written by anybody in this entire thread in
which breaking current functionality was proposed.
>> And because most everybody has made more or less the same errors, the
>> DNS TTL fails to cause their applications to work as intended and
>> loses its utility as a tool to facilitate renumbering.
>
> Since I don't write applications for a =A0living, I will admit I haven't =
rigorously
> tested any of the libraries out there, but, I'm willing to bet that someo=
ne,
> somewhere has probably written a good one by now.
Yeah, and if you give me a few weeks I can probably find it amidst all
the others which aren't so hot.
Regards,
Bill
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