[ntp:hackers] "bulletin C via DNS" service on line

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Nov 23 00:27:17 UTC 2015


phk at phk.freebsd.dk said:
> Because there is a good and widely available API for getting A records, but
> TXT records are a nightmare to get hold of. 

Any reason not to have both?

I can get TXT records via command line tools.  In scripting environments, it 
may be easier to process text strings than do the arithmetic to decode a 
dotted-quad.


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