Re: Mechanism to provide tai-utc.dat locally

From: Ashley Yakeley <ashley_at_SEMANTIC.ORG>
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:38:37 -0800

On Dec 25, 2006, at 02:39, Ed Davies wrote:

> A while ago I proposed the (ab)use of the DNS to do this.
>
> http://www.edavies.nildram.co.uk/dns-leapseconds/

Interesting. But would it not be better to use TXT or a new record
type rather than "A" records? Also, you need a whole DNS lookup just
to retrieve two bytes. And if you want to find out when transitions
are, you need to make repeated lookups.

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Ashley Yakeley
Received on Mon Dec 25 2006 - 16:38:59 PST

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