bin/100709: getaddrinfo(3) should return TTL info

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

>Number: 100709
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: getaddrinfo(3) should return TTL info
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 22 07:50:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Poul-Henning Kamp
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD critter.freebsd.dk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Wed Jul 5 22:14:32 UTC 2006 ro...@critter.freebsd.dk:/critter/obj/critter/src/sys/TP41P i386

>Description:

Why doesn't getaddrinfo() return the time-to-live timestamp
from DNS lookups ? That would be very convenient information
for long-running daemons so they don't have to do lookups more
than necessary.

For file based or numeric inputs, the ttl could be zero to
indicate "unknown".

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>Fix:

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