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From: <dplatt@radagast.org>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ax25ipd issue
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:18:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DhCR6-3jp-00@radagast.org> (raw)

> AX25IP works with not TCP, not UDP, but with IP protocol 93. It's a
> stateless protocol consisting of not much else than wrapping an
> AX.25 packet to an IP frame. Then there are variants that use UDP 
> to do pretty much the same.
> 
> If doing a DNS lookup for each outgoing AX.25 packet is ok for
> people then so be it. You have the source. Modify it.
> 
> I find it braindead. The fix should be something else.

I'm not sure that actually doing a DNS lookup (via the resolver
interface) is necessary or desireable.

However, I do think that when the daemon does such a lookup, and
caches the resulting IP address, it should also cache the current time
and the time-to-live value from the DNS lookup.  Once the response's
time-to-live expires, it should discard the callsign-to-IP-address
mapping and look it up again.

For the daemon to assume that a DNS response has an effectively
infinite lifetime is not a good thing.

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-11 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-11 20:18 dplatt [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-11 13:38 ax25ipd issue Chuck Hast
2005-06-11 15:41 ` John Hurst
2005-06-12 19:05   ` Bernard Pidoux
2005-06-12 21:37     ` Chuck Hast
2005-06-11 19:43 ` Tomi Manninen
2005-06-11 19:54   ` Jeremy Utley
2005-06-11 20:09     ` Tomi Manninen
2005-06-11 20:19       ` John Hurst
2005-06-11 20:32         ` David D. Hagood
2005-06-11 20:51           ` Chuck Hast
2005-06-11 20:45         ` Chuck Hast
2005-06-23 11:51           ` Steve Fraser
2005-06-23 12:15             ` Chuck Hast
2005-06-23 16:13             ` Bernard Pidoux
2005-06-11 23:03       ` Steve Fraser
2005-06-12  4:50       ` Jeremy Utley
2005-06-12 14:24         ` Tomi Manninen

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