On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, David Shaw wrote:
> It may be overly complex but why not use the Time-To-Live value associated
> with the address in the DNS? After the TTL expires, an address is not
> guaranteed to be valid anyway, so that would be a good time to reload.
Unfortunately, Exim uses gethostbyname() to look up these addresses, in
order to include other sources of name-to-address data. So it doesn't
get any TTL data.
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